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A comment on Ask HN: How did web development become so bizarrely complex?.

Re:Ask HN: How did web development become so bizarrely complex? by alex504 on Friday August 06, 2021 @06:39PM (#28093600)
Without a better description of the requirements of the site it is hard to give an answer about your specific situation with regards to what is taking so long.

Technologies have improved, and requirements have gotten more complex. It sounds like the team you are working on is either doing things in an awful way or the requirements are such that there is a lot that needs to be done.

20 years ago it was very difficult to build anything remotely complex. 2-3 people could build a very simple, static site over a few weeks. If you showed web developers 20 years ago what a modern web app looks like today they would be impressed.

It is certainly possible to use a bunch of technologies that complicate things unnecessarily but even then it shouldn't take 9 months for four engineers to build a simple site.

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Re:Ask HN: How did web development become so bizarrely complex? by umbrellaguy on Friday August 06, 2021 @10:47PM (#28095245)
In the OP: "When I started my career 20 years ago, this is the type of project where maybe 2-3 people would build out over a few weeks."
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Re:Ask HN: How did web development become so bizarrely complex? by ipaddr on Saturday August 07, 2021 @08:18PM (#28103088)
This is the type of project 20 years that was done by two or three people over a week or two.

Now a days it's a few hours.

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