Hackish? yeah!, immature? still yes!, sucks? hell no! I believe the very nature of the web, and the internet itself, is a story of a hack onto another hack. T

Hackish? yeah!, immature? still yes!, sucks? hell no! I believe the very nature of the web, and the internet itself, is a story of a hack onto another hack. Think about the first internet communication mediums, protocols, etc. They were all "hackish" solutions. Internet over the telephone landline? why not? change it to the cable TV infrastructure? Sure! The web itself morphed from text-based solutions (think telnet, gopher) to hyper-text documents and nowadays to full-applications. I acknowledge that this last iteration has been a growing pain indeed, it's a mess and hasn't been consolidated, yet. Nevertheless I think the reason behind this hackish nature is due to the fact that the web (and the internet as a whole) are always pushing towards an Open Platform, open to everyone to develop and consume, without any corporation behind it. Compare that kind of ecosystem with the more closed less-hackish ecosystems like Windows/OS X, Android/iOS app development, you can see the difference. Just my two cents :)