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jstanley 6 hours ago

They're not that different, and it's a pretty good platform and pretty easy to program for. That's why it won.

irishcoffee 6 hours ago | parent [-]

It didn't win. It just survived long enough. The web is a terrible platform. I haven't ever shipped a line of "web code" for money and I plan to keep it that way until I retire. What a miserable way to make a living.

2ndorderthought 20 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I envy your pure soul. I am one of many who has had, at times, been coerced through financial strain to write some front end code. All I ask for is, when the time comes, you try to remember me for who I was and not the thing I became.

jstanley 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Perhaps you're taking the npm/react/vercel world to be the entire web? I agree that that stuff is a scourge. But you can still just write html and Javascript and serve it from a static site, I wrote an outline in https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/web-programs.html which I frequently link to coding agents when they are going astray.

mohamedkoubaa 11 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I wouldn't say that react is what's wrong with the web. I would say that the web is what's wrong with react.

irishcoffee 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

When I was a kid I was running websites with active forums and a real domain name, and I did it with vBulletin and my brain. Someone bought the domain name and website off of me, haven't touched web tech since. I did use Wt at an old job once, but the "website" was local to 1 machine and there were no security concerns.