Online since 1990 Yes! I started with Gopher. I do modern Web Component Development with technologies supported by **all** WHATWG partners (Apple, Google, Microsoft & Mozilla)
But if you think of Web Components as just a language feature...
No one is saying, well... Set and Map have only been possible for N years, so be careful using them...
and no one is NOT using them because there is no extra tooling.
Biggest problem with WCs is that most developers are comparing them to other technologies.
Comparing them to RAVS (React,Angular,Vue,Svelte) is like comparing Set/Map to Redux
And (maybe) an even bigger problem IS the tooling available; the number of "Web Component" libraries is just crazy. Means most people learn A Tool instead of The Technology.... and a fool with a tool, is still a fool (is what we learned from jQuery)
But if you think of Web Components as just a language feature...
No one is saying, well... Set and Map have only been possible for N years, so be careful using them...
and no one is NOT using them because there is no extra tooling.
Biggest problem with WCs is that most developers are comparing them to other technologies.
Comparing them to RAVS (React,Angular,Vue,Svelte) is like comparing Set/Map to Redux
And (maybe) an even bigger problem IS the tooling available; the number of "Web Component" libraries is just crazy. Means most people learn A Tool instead of The Technology.... and a fool with a tool, is still a fool (is what we learned from jQuery)
𝘞𝘦𝘣 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘑𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘵 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 100% 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵,
𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘑𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥.
Should be the only sentence we write to newbies.