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Re:Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s by saagarjha on Friday March 02, 2018 @06:41PM (#16506767)
A lot of web development curriculum these days tends to focus on writing apps with JavaScript, or learning a new library. HTML/CSS is still taught, but I feel the “HTML is not a real language” sort of drives people away.
Re:Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s by rtpg on Friday March 02, 2018 @11:10PM (#16507818)
A big difficulty is that HTML by itself doesn't give you good ways to define templates so it's a pretty dreadful task.

Web components can change that in the future but until that it's pretty normal for developers to opt for tools that allow for creating a HTML fragment and building up HTML in another language.

Imagine if we had to do the c calling convention song and dance on every function call...

Re:Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s by Rumudiez on Saturday March 03, 2018 @12:23AM (#16508046)
There are plenty of simple templating options still out there. Twig, handlebars, and jekyll would all be good introductions in my opinion