With all due respect, I think you missed some points there. > > No dependencies or libraries to install, upgrade, maintain, test, and secure. This is mentione

With all due respect, I think you missed some points there. > > No dependencies or libraries to install, upgrade, maintain, test, and secure. This is mentioned as opposed to what we have today with Node.js, Pip and so on. Old CGI programs surely had dependencies. But dependency management was dramatically simpler. Of course there are pros and cons in the comparison. But simplicity is the key reminiscence here. > But there's a reason why we don't use it anymore. However I wonder: are all those reasons still valid? To what extent were those reasons motivated by rational decisions instead of pure trend-following? We shall not fool ourselves: not every technical decision we make have grounds on reason. I suspect most of them are not.