On: Why is modern web development so complicated?

[xyzzyz]

Easy, just don't write JS. For most sites, there's hardly any need for it. On HN, for example JavaScript is only 150 lines[1].

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/hn.js

[jdnenej → xyzzyz]

And you can tell. The page reloads when you want to edit a comment. Also hacker News is one of the simplest use cases ever.

[xyzzyz → jdnenej]

The page reloads when you want to edit a comment.

Yes, and it takes less than a second (checked in Chrome performance console) to do it. I'm happy with that.

Also hacker News is one of the simplest use cases ever.

Note that 95% of Facebook by usage (scrolling through feed, liking and commenting) doesn't have much more functionality than HN.