Yes! Web stacks have grown too convoluted and round-about. I used to do what's now called "full stack development" for small and medium applications. But that's

Yes! Web stacks have grown too convoluted and round-about. I used to do what's now called "full stack development" for small and medium applications. But that's almost impossible to do well and efficiently because web stacks shot YAGNI and KISS bloody dead. It now often takes layer specialist to do it well. Some say we have to burn what desktop IDE's did well to get HTTP-based apps, but I haven't seen any solid proof they are mutually exclusive. It just needs more R&D. We need new web UI standards that are CRUD-friendly. Social media and e-commerce have been wagging the web UI dog, but CRUD matters: it's not sexy, but runs the world. Standards improvements or addition possibilities include a state-ful GUI markup language (sort of like the best of YAML, XUL, & QML), and/or do something like Java Applets correctly, learning from security and version/package-management mistakes of the past. Similar opinion: https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/r59nzr/i_regret_going_into_web_programming_should_have/ https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/r59nzr/i_regret_goi...