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0 pointscsbartus2y ago0 comments

Agree.

I've created my first website in 1999 with plain HTML, CSS, vanilla JS, hosted on Geocities.

Since then I've been using PHP/WordPress/Yii/Laravel, Ruby/Rails/Sinatra/Jekyll, React/Typescript, ClojureScript to create both sites and apps.

With React / TSX components / CSS-in-TS / Effects / Context I'm home. Finally a fully fledged programming language for the web / front-end. A language made explicitly for the front-end, built om modern principles like functional, reactive programming.

Now I can do software development. Before that, with HTML, CSS, plain JS, PHP it was ... just hacking, nothing else. (Rails was good for full-stack, was not shining on the front-end)

I'll skip frameworks when the web stack will be ready for the apps, too. Now it's (perhaps) good enough for sites, I should admit.

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squidbeak2y ago

Perhaps web publishing shouldn't be presupposed to be 'software development'?

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thinkingemote2y ago

All of the technologies you used previously were considered "finally fully fledged" until they weren't!

We will be doing something different in a couple of years and saying that the stuff we do now is out of date and the new stuff is home. It's always been this way. We are tech nomads finding ourselves new homes as and when we move on.

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