In a professional setting I will probably always reach for Lodash due to it's maturity and mindshare. Personally, though, I really prefer Remeda (https://github.com/remeda/remeda) as a pragmatic and flexible API.

1. I know GitHub stars aren't everything, but Playwright has 41.9k at the moment, and Cypress has 40.5k.

2. Playwright is backed by Microsoft, and given how happy I've been with how they manage Typescript, that makes it a pretty safe bet to me.

3. Cypress is much older, so I discount a lot of the blog posts in my evaluations. In fact, I count such things against it sometimes, because oftentimes when I'm hunting for a solution to a problem, all I can find are outdated answers. I run into this a lot with AngularJS and Angular.

4. Playwright is included in most of the recent comparison articles I've run across. I don't really keep track of these, but searching again I quickly ran across 2 examples:

  * https://blog.checklyhq.com/cypress-vs-selenium-vs-playwright-vs-puppeteer-speed-comparison/
  * https://www.testim.io/blog/puppeteer-selenium-playwright-cypress-how-to-choose/

The big differences between v1 and v2 make me uneasy. I am reminded of the constant API churn of React-Router, or the complete change from AngularJS to Angular. This approach makes me very hesitant to learn the library, because I am afraid of having the choice of painful upgrade or a dead dependency down the road.

I am also wary of the library being VC-funded, because I am afraid of what kinds of features will be held at ransom down the line once they need to start making money.

Why not instead create a deps directory, and keep in it one file per dependency? Inside each file, you re-export the library from URL.

This way you can import from files rather than URLs elsewhere in your code, and it should be clear which dependency is being imported from the file name itself.

So if I can't keep muscle memory of Vim keybindings, and I have never found a Vim configuration I've been happy with, why was I so stubbornly holding onto the idea that Vim was the right editor of choice for me? I don't know, but I finally changed my mind and looked for another editor. A dead simple one with sane defaults.

It came down to Nano vs Micro for me. Both are great. I ended up liking Micro a bit better, although I'm very glad to see that Nano development is still active.

Although I personally think Rust is fine. It's just that I thought the frontend and backend split is too complex. I am looking for something simpler than neovim, personally, and xi didn't tick that box for me.