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The Tyranny of Web Development (linkedin.com)
11 points by louiscyphre on Dec 21, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



There are plenty of things about developing for the web these days to be annoyed with, but overall the state of web development is way-ay-ay better than 15-20 years ago when IE was dominant and widespread support for standards was hard to come by. I'm much happier working in Rails or even modern JS/Webpack then working in any "native" app framework/language.


Still, I don't like web development. I used Python/Django and Pharo/Teapot, and they were okay, but I would rather do any other kind of programming.


> "that forces you to use only one programming tool (HTML/CSS/JavaScript)?"

- web developer

Three. That would be three different things...

- engineer


Well, the three different things comprise one tool. ;-)




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