I am an old developer and I completely disagree with some of the advice. Specifically a lot of older developers think we should be delivering thin client applic

I am an old developer and I completely disagree with some of the advice. Specifically a lot of older developers think we should be delivering thin client applications which was how the early web did it, but the early web did it for two important reasons. The first being bandwidth and the second being because Sun had a big hand in the early web and sun saw the world as selling big iron that a bunch of dumb terminals with low processing power connected to. It was a dumb idea and Sun partly died because of it. It is a painful user experience and I would dread trying to build modern web delivered applications via the old page-post model. If anything I see today's SPA's as correcting a world gone wrong and finally killing the completely stupid idea of dumb terminals once and for all. They also got rid of flash and a host of other browser plugins. To sum it up, i was programming before the web existed, I hated the old page-post model, I don't build web pages, I build large apps. I am happy that I can deliver them via the web and I am happy about the state of the art. I think it can be improved on quite a bit, but not by going backwards.