that was my thought exactly! I wonder if we're ever going to see a shift toward single-compiled-binary websites, away from increasingly complex deployments that exist solely to facilitate interpreted language stacks.

this is the question driving the framework I'm building—it even has support for simple HTML templates, but they're interpreted, type-checked against the structs that get passed into them, and baked into the executable, all at compile time. this is all coming off of building a website for a client using PHP for the first time in over a decade—on one hand, I appreciate the relative simplicity and ease of deployment compared to modern backend stacks, but on the other hand, it's still an interpreted language, with all the baggage associated with that. I believe it is possible to take the ease of use and speed of iteration of interpreted languages, and the benefits of strongly-typed compiled languages, and get the best of both worlds—at least, for the scale and complexity of website that I want to build and maintain.