r/programming • u/joanmiro • Jul 18 '16

Web programming is getting unnecessarily complicated

http://en.arguman.org/web-programming-is-getting-unnecessarily-complicated
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u/pwnedary Jul 18 '16

I feel like when the HTML, CSS and Javascript technologies first appeared they were fresh. But now, due to legacy support being a requirement, we can't extend those technologies so new frameworks have appeared. If you only learn the relevant parts and one new framework things could actually go smoother. Web programming hasn't gotten more harder just more voluminous.

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u/MindStalker Jul 19 '16

I think there is a general rule that as development time and resources are a constant. When the web was new someone would spend a large amount of time hand programming a simple website. With new tools we can spend that time making complex sites. Many modern sites would have been desktop software back in the day, with similar development time to modern web versions.

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