Ever get the feeling that modern web dev has become… a bit too complex?

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.

    • marcos@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      You can always do pre-Modern web development. There’s nothing stopping you.

      In fact, with the modern browsers, it’s better than ever.

    • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 month ago

      If you just want to build a basic web page or roughly static document / form, then I can see why it would feel like overkill.

      But if you’re building a full featured application then modern web development is kind of glorious.

      • affenlehrer@feddit.org
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        1 month ago

        I’ll wait until modern web developers figure out how to do things without a bazillion dependencies that have new critical vulnerabilities every week and release backwards incompatible versions every month or so.

        Also I don’t like shipping several MB of JavaScript to the user just for a fancy looking form.

        • howmuchlonger@lemmy.org
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          1 month ago

          I’m a modern web developer and I do things without a bazillion dependencies.

          You’re mistaking developers with lazy fucks. ;)

            • howmuchlonger@lemmy.org
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              1 month ago

              No worries. Dependencies with JavaScript are… insane. I’m often shut down when I bring this up to developers. “All it takes is the one malicious dependency of one of your dependencies dependencies dependency.” “Oh you’re paranoid”

      • kazerniel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 month ago

        In case you find a reader’s perspective useful: Whenever I see someone using AI images, I just close the article, as it feels very likely they used AI for the text too, and I’m not interested in consuming slop in any form.