Sometimes I catch myself thinking about the “good old days”. When you could just write some code, compile it, and run it without worrying about all the dependencies, the build tools, the client-side rendering, the server-side rendering, the server components, and all the other buzzwords that are thrown around in the web dev world… just code doing its thing.

And honestly, I think that feeling isn’t totally wrong. Maybe we can make things simpler, faster, more straightforward again.

So naturally… I decided to embrace the future by going back to the past: COBOL.

Here’s my (100% serious, definitely not questionable) migration story.

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[–] TheV2@programming.dev 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

The real alternative is much more simple - static HTML + CSS with manual deployment and manual file transfer. If that's not enough, you can step-by-step add to it. There certainly are web applications that benefit from the complex defaults. I don't hate these tools per se. I hate that they are the default. Yet it only makes that most web developers need a job and to get that job they need to use an overkill stack for their personal and community projects.

If you want to hear an upside, just remember that this happens everywhere and at least the modern web dev chaos is mostly built on top of free and open-source tools and not proprietary bullshit.

[–] howmuchlonger@lemmy.org 1 points 1 hour ago

HTMX

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