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Couldn't agree more. Obnoxious biased introduction: "The web is the greatest application delivery platform on Earth, and frankly it’s a stain on our professio

Couldn't agree more. Obnoxious biased introduction: "The web is the greatest application delivery platform on Earth, and frankly it’s a stain on our profession that you need to know five different programming languages and three different frameworks if you want to make it do anything. Really, all you should need is to be able to code - ideally, in a friendly, readable language that’s easy to learn and isn’t full of unpleasant surprises." As someone who does fullstack dev in JavaScript I find the comment totally without basis.

eberkund 9y ago
What are these 5 programming languages? I assume that includes HTML, CSS, JavaScript and maybe some backend language. Still, that's only 4. Also even in desktop and mobile application development there is a separate markup language for putting together the UI. For example XAML for Windows devs and XML for Android.
- actsasbuffoon 9y ago
  Probably a query language such as SQL.
  - Xoros 9y ago
    So in the end you'll get : html, css, python and sql :-D Much better. Oh wait... (not criticizing your own comment of course)
    - eberkund 9y ago
      Well you could still need some JS for the frontend but once we're adding a database too is it really any different from whichever Desktop GUI framework? The only difference is I guess that CSS and HTML are separate whereas this isn't as common for Desktop applications.
WalterSear 9y ago
The author clearly feels that five is not enough, and that adding Python will give us the six languages that we need.
flavio81 9y ago
> "The web is the greatest application delivery platform on Earth, and frankly it’s a stain on our profession that you need to know five different programming languages (...) Really, all you should need is to be able to code." The guy who wrote this is sadly one in a new breed of so-called "coders" that don't really love the art of programming.
chaostheory 9y ago
Technically with the advent of Nodejs, you can just use one language and only use 1 or 2 frameworks for a full responsive web app. You just have to use Javascript for all of it

eberkund 9y ago

What are these 5 programming languages? I assume that includes HTML, CSS, JavaScript and maybe some backend language. Still, that's only 4. Also even in desktop and mobile application development there is a separate markup language for putting together the UI. For example XAML for Windows devs and XML for Android.

actsasbuffoon 9y ago
Probably a query language such as SQL.
- Xoros 9y ago
  So in the end you'll get : html, css, python and sql :-D Much better. Oh wait... (not criticizing your own comment of course)
  - eberkund 9y ago
    Well you could still need some JS for the frontend but once we're adding a database too is it really any different from whichever Desktop GUI framework? The only difference is I guess that CSS and HTML are separate whereas this isn't as common for Desktop applications.

WalterSear 9y ago

The author clearly feels that five is not enough, and that adding Python will give us the six languages that we need.

flavio81 9y ago

> "The web is the greatest application delivery platform on Earth, and frankly it’s a stain on our profession that you need to know five different programming languages (...) Really, all you should need is to be able to code." The guy who wrote this is sadly one in a new breed of so-called "coders" that don't really love the art of programming.

chaostheory 9y ago

Technically with the advent of Nodejs, you can just use one language and only use 1 or 2 frameworks for a full responsive web app. You just have to use Javascript for all of it