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> My friends and I would put together little toy websites with PHP or Rails in a span of weeks and everyone thought they were awesome. Agreed, LAMP was just so
by not_kurt_godel 4y ago
> My friends and I would put together little toy websites with PHP or Rails in a span of weeks and everyone thought they were awesome.
Agreed, LAMP was just so damn fun in how you could go from zero to a fully functioning site in a day or two. Having to manage all the statefulness of fetching & displaying data asynchronously from the client adds an incredible amount of complication both in theory and in practice.
Also agree that the old tech wasn't necessarily better either - but it sure would be cool if someone could replicate the developer experience from back then and produce a result that's up to modern engineering and UX standards.