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"It's one of the core principles of web development and it means that you should Choose the least powerful language suitable for a given purpose." That's one o
by rfrey 3y ago
"It's one of the core principles of web development and it means that you should Choose the least powerful language suitable for a given purpose."
That's one of the core principles of web development? Why? I'm prepared to be embarrassed, like a "senior dev" who asks "uh, what's polymorphism?" but... I've never heard this "core principle" before and I've been doing web applications since DHTML displaced java applets.
- rzmmm 3y agoI think the author might be referring to "Principle of Least Power" or a similar general programming trope which is more or less useful today, depending on who you ask. I.e. see this short write by Tim Berners-Lee https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Principles.html https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Principles.html