fergie

And like 950 of them were probably closed for being "off-topic".

Its not so much the moderation, its more the random nature of the links, and the anonymization of user contributions.

One thing is that there are lots of bots on the site, another is that the site now seems to be specifically designed for bots.

No idea why this idea is being downvoted, because it is totally correct, even more so in the LLM-coding era.

I really think that you should actually read the article.

How does this actually work? Are they talking about browser fingerprinting or something else?

All of this is correct, but it still requires PHP on the server- this will not work in HTML itself.

As a philosophy major, I can confirm that the field generally rewards those who make good arguments for bad ideas, and that for reasons that I never fully understood, texts always seem to be far more verbose than necessary.

Ultimately you still need somebody to decide what we are going to tell the machines what to do, and then actually tell the machines what to do, and it doesn't really matter if that is in JavaScript or plain English.

There does _seem_ to be some pressure on the top end of SWE salaries. Its possible that this is just wishful thinking, but if true, I suspect that it has more to do with an increase in job applicants rather than a decrease in actual work. AI seems to have driven up the amount of applications received for every vacant position.

In web development:

Frameworks- possibly.

TypeScript, and other metalanguages- probably not.

Agree that handling state is also a big part of js frameworks.

> It would tie in an additional feature with potential future incompatibilities

No offense but this is a bit of a non-argument that could be applied to just about any development in HTML.

> There’s also just not a super great reason to do it.

Most web dev frameworks exist in large part to solve the problem of templating. (yes, they do other stuff, but templating is the central problem that they are solving)

They embed webpages into other webpages and definitely have their place, and could arguably be used more, but they are definitely not a way to consolidate a single piece of HTML from constituent pieces.

mate, I've been a full time web developer for 26 years, plus the time I spent at uni :)