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ah yes, the 1970s where you could sit on your laptop at home, go to a cloud providers website, copy paste your code and launch an app in minutes. This guy is t
by hnechochamber 6y ago
ah yes, the 1970s where you could sit on your laptop at home, go to a cloud providers website, copy paste your code and launch an app in minutes.
This guy is trying too hard to sound smart.
- diveanon 6y agoI'm probably the same age as this guy, the article definitely made me roll my eyes a few times for this exact reason.
- sergiomattei 6y agoThere's another angle we're not discussing too. Serverless functions are usually free. This is a huge boon for learning: I'm a college student with limited resources, and even spinning up a $5/mo VPS takes some thought and budgeting. I learned web dev with free web hosts & free VPS services back when I was 13-15. Further democratization will only help newer generations explore & tinker with confidence (scale-wise and tech wise).