Why not? I feel like people have gotten so used to the limitations of WebAssembly today that they've internalized JS as the only answer. But I don't really like JS, and would love to build web apps in other languages, and I totally would if it wasn't a huge pain (and slower too!)

Basically, it's sugar for `package` and `world` in the case where you aren't actually defining a world for others to use, and just for your own use. In such a case, the package and world names are irrelevant anyway.

If everyone who uses it seriously ends up "doing it wrong", I say it's the framework's fault.

Certainly there are cases where some manager says "put this script in Google Tag Manager and don't ask any questions", but rarely have I ever seen that be the bottleneck. Programmers actually just write really bad frameworks, and then other programmers use them to make even worse software, for literally no reason other than "maybe this framework design would be cool".

Many people in or around the community have made great software over the years (4coder, File Pilot, RemedyBG, the RAD Debugger, Essence OS, Odin, raylib, kb_text_shape.h, Spall, etc.) but because it's a community of programmers, expertise in many "soft skills" is often lacking. This often prevents Handmade software from being a bigger success and sustaining its own development. Our goal is to fill in a lot of those gaps and help this amazing software achieve widespread success and redefine expectations for software quality across the industry.

We'll have a lot more details about what we do with the money once we actually start taking people's money.

The thing we can offer developers, which is rather unique, is bespoke "Handmade-style" handling of many dull aspects of professional software: payments, licensing, email lists, websites, support, etc. The goal is to do these things without locking the project authors into a third-party platform; that is against our Handmade values and there are plenty of such products on the market today.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2dxjOjWHxQ

The hope is that people will sponsor us because we directly boost the creation and publishing of high-quality software, and give some measure of benefits to our paying members, which is typical 501(c)(6) stuff.

People assume that surely the pile of high-level languages and frameworks will actually result in a better experience. But Dear Imgui or Clay are genuinely easier to use, easier to iterate in, and faster too. This is why I think it's so unhelpful to focus on the position in the stack: Dear Imgui is a better high level tool than React, despite being "low level" by modern expectations!