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0 pointsdmitriid8y ago0 comments

> but the web app only sucks if you're using the stuff that sucks.

Please show me anything that doesn't suck on the web. And yes, I've been doing web development for close to 17 years now.

There's almost nothing that doesn't suck on the web. The languages, the tooling, the platform - you name it. It is good for one thing, and one thing only: displaying single-page interlinked documents with little to no embedded media. Any and all other attempts to make it do anything else end up bloated incomplete internally inconsistent overlapping monstrosities.

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kuon8y ago

I have been using elm for some time now, and it's the first time I feel I am using a non broken tool.

dustinfarris8y ago

Agreed, I learned Elm a year ago and haven’t looked back. Love being able to dismiss all other frontend web talk without a second thought.

dmitriidOP8y ago

But you can't. The moment you need to do a layout, you're back into html + css and it's inabilty to cater to anything beyond single-page documents (not apps) ;)

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eagsalazar28y ago

You should really change careers.

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