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Isn't a day on HN unless someone complains about web development while pining for the days when they were building command line calculators in COBOL on their ma
by seangrogg 6y ago
Isn't a day on HN unless someone complains about web development while pining for the days when they were building command line calculators in COBOL on their mainframes while sipping espresso with Turing and Dijkstra.
- trixie_ 6y agoDon't worry, eventually the web development will be figured out and it retrospect we'll look like cavemen rubbing two sticks together.
- seangrogg 6y agoI honestly hope so. Sticks are passable enough for addressing today's CRUD apps but I'll readily take scalpels and plasma torches as they become available.
- jonnypotty 6y agoAre you really gonna defend the current state of Web development?
- seangrogg 6y agoNope. Web development could (and should) be much cleaner. But it doesn't get there by tirelessly adding to the list of curmudgeonly comments over and over and over. As a web developer who made zero choice for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to be in the position they are today and who is wholeheartedly open to seeing the chances that things like wasm could bring it is honestly more tiring reading yet another derisive comment about JavaScript fatigue than it is actually dealing with the churn in the ecosystem.