Yes. Web programming is a mess. It's layers and layers of half-baked solutions, each patching deficiencies in the previous layer while introducing new deficienc

Yes. Web programming is a mess. It's layers and layers of half-baked solutions, each patching deficiencies in the previous layer while introducing new deficiencies. It's a convoluted Rune Goldbergian contraption, attempting to make a general application framework out technologies originally designed to display hypertext. The individual parts make sense once you're familiar with them. Some are even designed by conscientious and competent people. But the feeling that, taken together, it's an ugly hack is inescapable.