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How did we as an industry go from "create a blog in 10 minutes" with rails to a "create a twitter clone in 7 days"? It seems we have gone backwards in terms of

How did we as an industry go from "create a blog in 10 minutes" with rails to a "create a twitter clone in 7 days"? It seems we have gone backwards in terms of speed of getting things done in the last decade.

drieddust 10y ago
Not really creating a blog in 10 minutes using a framework is very different from learning to build a twitter clone with without one is not comparable in my view.
- repsilat 10y ago
  Back in undergrad I picked up PHP for the first time one day and built a blog with comments in one sitting. Super easy, anyone could do it, no frameworks (or javascript) required.
  - drieddust 10y ago
    How did you do ajax requests without js?
    - repsilat 10y ago
      Ajax might have existed back then, but it was probably still called "DHTML" :-). To be honest I'm not really sure why you'd want javascript running on a blog today let alone more than decade ago.
idobai 10y ago
> How did we as an industry go from "create a lean-to in 10 minutes" with sticks and leafs to a "create a house in 30 days"? It seems we have gone backwards in terms of speed of getting things done in the last milleniums.