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I would suggest that it's really easy to envision some much less painful abstractions for web development. Sure, learning an entire field from first principals

I would suggest that it's really easy to envision some much less painful abstractions for web development. Sure, learning an entire field from first principals is going to be hard, and to do science you need to understand those principals. But the general concept of "make a dynamic web page" is not computer science! What most people (and the author of the blog post) need is a clean abstraction that allows them to glue a few APIs together with some custom forms.

Taikonerd 7y ago
That's the premise of low-code, right? "I don't need a fully general language with configurable everything; I just need a simple tool for this one common use case." I'm excited about what Dark (https://darklang.com/ https://darklang.com/) is doing with this idea. As you said, "a clean abstraction that allows them to glue a few APIs together with some custom forms."