This might be the root cause of the "goopy" feeling I get working on web apps. I couldn't get away from it so I just gave up on web apps entirely. So much of w

This might be the root cause of the "goopy" feeling I get working on web apps. I couldn't get away from it so I just gave up on web apps entirely. So much of web tooling seems to aim to perpetuate the conceptual model of the web instead of daring to improve on it. Declarative views, for instance, are a breath of fresh air: instead of trying to put a JS/Python/Ruby coat of paint on the same ideas of what a web app should be, they aimed at trying to reduce a view to its essential complexity. In a sense, being too in love with the web keeps you at a local maximum because you think web programming should be HTML/CSS/JS only.