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You’re moving the goalposts to a whole new stadium.



Classic HN conversation here.

"The web is too complex! All these web frameworks are too complicated!"

"Okay, what do you suggest instead?"

"I'd just use [completely unmaintainable technology from the 90s that is no longer supported by its vendor]"

"Okay, how would you approach [basic feature of the web framework]?"

"Stop moving the goalposts!"

Come on, you could at least come up with some hand-waving about cache headers and CDNs.


You missed the classic, "I did this back in the 90s using x and it was more powerful and sane compared to any of this new malarkey"




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