vkc // Veronica ExplainsDec 6, 2022

Me, 20 years ago: "I don't need tabbed browsing. One window per site is fine and dandy."

Me, 10 years ago: "I can run 40 tabs at once, look at how productive I am!"

Me, at present: "I don't need tabbed browsing. One window per site is fine and dandy."

Show threadvkc // Veronica ExplainsDec 6, 2022

Me, 20 years ago: "HTML is fine, with some light CSS. I don't need a bunch of JavaScript."

Me, 10 years ago: "Look at all the jQuery I pumped in this page! It's so sparkly! And Bootstrap makes it look great everywhere!"

Me, at present: "HTML is fine, with some light CSS. I don't need a bunch of JavaScript."

Show threadTanguy ⧓ HerrmannSep 27, 2023
@vkc I totally avoided frontend dev for the last 10 years.
I had to choose between ember (RIP), angular and react. When I learned that angular 2 was around the corner, I was "ok, let's wait".
Very shortly, I learned that angular 2 had nothing to do with angular 1, so you'd have to do nearly a full rewrite.
I noped out of there very fast when I saw this madness.
Show threadTanguy ⧓ Herrmann

@vkc I went crazy the other way and started developing my own frontend framework in a non javascript language to still have dynamic page (it was for a video game).

I'm pretty sure developing and maintaining it was still faster than handle all the migrations, change of API, complex build system of all this frontend framework folly.

Which is, very sad.

But anyway, I think I will now use HTMX as it stays simple, as it should have.

Sep 27, 2023 at 7:55amWeb