Re:Man Spends Entire Career Mastering Crappy Codebase
by hliyan on Thursday August 03, 2023 @08:14AM
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There is a massive advantage in being able to see the web tech stack for what it is and wielding it without over-engineering or fanaticism, while your competitors are spending 2-3x on monstrosities that essentially does the same thing, but slower.
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Re:Man Spends Entire Career Mastering Crappy Codebase
by ticviking on Thursday August 03, 2023 @08:20AM
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The day a professor made me implement a simple http server was the day I achieved code enlightenment.
At that level of abstraction it’s all just strings
Re:Man Spends Entire Career Mastering Crappy Codebase
by tambourine_man on Thursday August 03, 2023 @08:31AM
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That was the web, yeah. Absurdly simple. Now all new protocols are binary and require reading several academic papers instead of a single RFC.
Re:Man Spends Entire Career Mastering Crappy Codebase
by bob1029 on Thursday August 03, 2023 @09:25AM
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> At that level of abstraction it’s all just strings
Exactly... I worry about the masses learning of this and gaining literacy over the landed gentry.
PHP/CGI basically had it solved. I emulate PHP in .NET6 today using verbatim and interpolated string operations.
Re:Man Spends Entire Career Mastering Crappy Codebase
by a_subsystem on Thursday August 03, 2023 @12:37PM
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Re:Man Spends Entire Career Mastering Crappy Codebase
by bob1029 on Thursday August 03, 2023 @08:45AM
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I was originally concerned about your parent comment regarding your new foray into web dev (that C++ path sounds amazing), but this comment has put my soul at ease.
If you walk into web dev with aggressive principles and a willingness to be controversial, you can get a lot of shit done and it will feel great. Watching others struggle under the various JS framework circuses has almost an opulent/aristocratic vibe in 2023.