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I miss CGI internal tooling. It was always fast and just did the thing you want. Now we have bullshit recursive lambdas with nonsense UIs full of harmful whit
by mulmen 3y ago
I miss CGI internal tooling. It was always fast and just did the thing you want. Now we have bullshit recursive lambdas with nonsense UIs full of harmful whitespace.
I started with Perl CGI and have been less productive every year since then.
- rawleyfowler 3y agoSeriously. I feel like 99% of the work I do in Micro-Service/Event-Driven/etc systems could realistically be a few CGI scripts hooked connected to a DB via DBI. It's sort of ironic how people often call Perl "overly complicated" or "confusing" then justify 100+ service clusters using K8's and AWS to serve 1000 users/day. AdventOfCode handles a few million users per day during the weeks it's active, all powered by a few FastCGI scripts, it's still really good technology.