Re:Ask HN: Getting tired of complexity in web development
by ksec on Sunday October 09, 2022 @12:20AM
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>Why does this happen? No idea, but it's not lost on me that a lot of these things are backed by huge companies with giant piles of money who are using them as marketing.
1. New Tools, in the modern era means Promotion, VCs, Money, Prestige. personal branding.
2. Creating complexity, in the name of needs for these Big Tech is a great way to create a moat for themselves.
3. Ideology, web development is possibly the 2nd worst places if it wasn't for Rust evangelism strike force. The idea that every single god damn thing should be in Javascript or SPA.
4. The Act of design before coding is gone. Especially in the era of Web Development. Lead by Google and Facebook which later spread across Silicon Valley and later across the world. An Act which is even seen as evil or forbidden.
1. New Tools, in the modern era means Promotion, VCs, Money, Prestige. personal branding.
2. Creating complexity, in the name of needs for these Big Tech is a great way to create a moat for themselves.
3. Ideology, web development is possibly the 2nd worst places if it wasn't for Rust evangelism strike force. The idea that every single god damn thing should be in Javascript or SPA.
4. The Act of design before coding is gone. Especially in the era of Web Development. Lead by Google and Facebook which later spread across Silicon Valley and later across the world. An Act which is even seen as evil or forbidden.