Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks?

Re:Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks? by webXL on Monday September 12, 2016 @11:38AM (#12480621)

loathe? I loathe public speaking and flossing, but these things are good for me, and I'm sure you wouldn't be doing frontend dev if there wasn't a big upside that it made possible.

> teetering Jenga tower of hacks?

How is any programming language not capable of being brittle?

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Re:Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks? by niccaluim on Monday September 12, 2016 @01:12PM (#12481545)

This isn't about a language. It's about the whole stack.

I've been programming since before the web was invented. The web, as a development platform, is the worst layer-cake of kludges I've ever seen.

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Re:Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks? by webXL on Monday September 12, 2016 @03:26PM (#12482849)

Fine. Name a better stack then and suggest ways this one can improve.

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