Since I started working as developer I can see that every year majority of leading frameworks (at least in PHP, Javascript, Ruby...) for web applications are becoming more and more complex. Instead of writing code in programing language we move into xml/yaml direction and hundreds of weird config files. Each frameworks use different syntax for config, often different templating languages, few layers of abstraction with a lot of magic behind the scene, Dependency Injections, ORM'S, CRUD generators with supposed to make our life easier actually are painful to use...
Even small website often requires hundreds of megabytes of dependencies. Sometimes one application can have 2 different build systems e.g. (ant, grunt) and few dependency managers...
Micro/nano services trend looks optimistic, but I am not sure if it's not double-edged sword, and instead of using complex frameworks developer will be forced to use complex communication system to orchestrate communication between them.
In few years instead of writing code are we going to write configs files?
