> He should be using a pile of frameworks on top of frameworks on top of a managed code environment with all the latest performance killing mitigation strategies. That's how we do things in 2018: keep adding crap until the software is slow and bloated.

This attitude is much of the reason why software security is as bad as it is today. I'll take a little "bloat" over ZIP files being able to install ransomware (and security vs. performance doesn't have to be a tradeoff anyway).