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There is a massive advantage in being able to see the web tech stack for what it is and wielding it without over-engineering or fanaticism, while your competito
by hliyan 3y ago
There is a massive advantage in being able to see the web tech stack for what it is and wielding it without over-engineering or fanaticism, while your competitors are spending 2-3x on monstrosities that essentially does the same thing, but slower.
- ticviking 3y agoThe day a professor made me implement a simple http server was the day I achieved code enlightenment. At that level of abstraction it’s all just strings
- tambourine_man 3y agoThat was the web, yeah. Absurdly simple. Now all new protocols are binary and require reading several academic papers instead of a single RFC.
- bob1029 3y ago> At that level of abstraction it’s all just strings Exactly... I worry about the masses learning of this and gaining literacy over the landed gentry. PHP/CGI basically had it solved. I emulate PHP in .NET6 today using verbatim and interpolated string operations.
- a_subsystem 3y agoRelevant: https://twitter.com/serbantanasa/status/1582019078533046272 https://twitter.com/serbantanasa/status/1582019078533046272
- bob1029 3y agoI was originally concerned about your parent comment regarding your new foray into web dev (that C++ path sounds amazing), but this comment has put my soul at ease. If you walk into web dev with aggressive principles and a willingness to be controversial, you can get a lot of shit done and it will feel great. Watching others struggle under the various JS framework circuses has almost an opulent/aristocratic vibe in 2023.
- DrBazza 3y agoFair point. The web stack is the one thing I actively avoid doing anything significant with for exactly the reasons you've just described.