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It certainly has. Frameworks like Rails or Django didn't exist, pre-built component libraries weren't even a dream yet, and everyone was trying to get software
by kodah 6y ago
It certainly has. Frameworks like Rails or Django didn't exist, pre-built component libraries weren't even a dream yet, and everyone was trying to get software to run consistently on each other's machines.
These days there's worlds of abstraction between you and those problems. Those abstractions are in transpilation, libraries, etc which all take more power to get over the problem of time.
- regularfry 6y ago>> last decade > Frameworks like Rails or Django didn't exist You... might want to check the git histories. And a calendar.
- kodah 6y agoYou are right, they were around. They didn't exist with the capabilities or simplicity they do today though. Rails is also benefitting from performance improvements to Ruby, most recently.
- regularfry 6y agoThe development velocity you could get with Rails was never constrained by the interpreter speed. That was part of the point, you could get a perfectly respectable project stood up on ruby 1.8.
- pjmlp 6y agoCough, Zope, AOLServer, ASP COM libraries, Vignette,...