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Comment by smarkov

Without downplaying all the effort being put into this, I think we're just digging a deeper hole.

Websites do more or less the same thing they did 15 years ago but they are now 20 times more complex to develop and maintain. A good amount of developers would rather donate a kidney than write CSS. Accessibility is a hack. Performance is getting worse despite us having better than ever hardware. We're spending large amounts of time reinventing the wheel. JS is a horrible, bare bones language which is why you can't get anything done without 100 packages.

It's time to move away from HTML/CSS/JS. They worked great for as long as they did but instead of further contributing to the mess that they've become, we should be looking into alternatives.

parent smarkov 3 years ago

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