Why I Stopped Building My JavaScript Framework After 1,500 Lines of Spec

In Part 1, I showed you the vision: a web framework where two imports replace twenty, the compiler does the heavy lifting, and islands keep your JavaScript budget honest. In Part 2, I took you through the technical depth: the Transfer vs. Expression problem, cross-module compiler analysis, TypeScript type hacks, and the growing list of edge cases that made the specification simultaneously more impressive and more terrifying. Now it's time to tell you why I stopped. Not because the ideas were bad — they weren't. Not because I lost interest — I didn't. I stopped because I finally understood something that every senior engineer knows but nobody teaches you: the distance between "I know exactly how this should work" and "someone can npm install this" is measured in person-years, not pages. The spreadsheet of doom One evening, I opened a fresh document and listed every component of the MVP. Not the hand-wavy "compiler, runtime, server" version from the spec. The actual work: Component Estim