I rant about the excess complexity of our CRUD dev tools all the time. Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31217253#31240227 https://news.ycombinator

I rant about the excess complexity of our CRUD dev tools all the time. Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31217253#31240227 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31217253#31240227 It's roughly 3x the complexity and labor compared to the 1990's desktop-oriented IDE's like VB, Delphi, PowerBuilder, Clarion, FileMakerPro, etc. I realize deployment (installing, updating) was harder compared to web apps, but I'm not sure it has to be either-or in terms of simplifying deployment at the expense of development. Oracle Forms seemed to do the CRUD job sufficiently without installing a new EXE for each app update. It seemed almost a "GUI browser". A state-ful GUI markup standard may help us get closer to that again. OF was not perfect, but we should've learned from what worked well and improved upon. We threw out the productive baby with the bathwater. We have over-focused on social media and "web scale", but ordinary CRUD still does most the real office work. Making our apps "mobile friendly" has crippled them, despite the fact most real work is done with mice. It's time to return to YAGNI, KISS, and real GUI standards. It's not about nostalgia, it's about NOT excepting the waste and bloat our current dev tools now have. "Hello World" has a zillion lines of code behind it now.