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One of the reasons I moved my personal site to static. Don't have to think about it anymore.
by jonnycomputer 2y ago
One of the reasons I moved my personal site to static. Don't have to think about it anymore.
- TaylorAlexander 2y agoYah I’m thinking about the Space Jam website. HTML doesn’t seem to rot like some hot new JS library does.
- bilalq 2y agoIt's an issue of servers, not JS. A BackboneJS app written in CoffeeScript back in 2010 would still run just fine today if it was hosted on S3/CloudFront. Replace the framework/language/year with anything, and it'd still hold true. But if the page needed to fetch data from an unmaintained API server that ran out of disk space, lost its DB network connection, got rebooted by a VPS provider, or any other issue, that site will probably never work again.
- jonnycomputer 2y agoYeah, its mostly a matter of database/server exploits. My personal wordpress site got white-hacked; left a friendly note telling me to update. I switched to static instead.
- Kye 2y agoHTML benefits from the fact that browsers have always bent over backwards to make sense of whatever freak noise they're fed. Try the same with your average compiler/interpreter and it'll send you right back to your desk with a list of admonishments. Trouble is, those admonishments change, and require updates. The HTML inside a PHP program from 2005 probably works, but the PHP probably doesn't.