the real truth is that web dev has been running around in circles on itself for over a decade now

"but every framework is 'new' and 'shiny'!!!!"

nah, just more sugar on the same exact concepts that have been around since day 1

Chasing the flavor of the week is doomed to failure.

I love Rails because it's old and boring.

When I started I was making forms. Still making forms. But I've always worked on administrative software because I do not like visuals. Never created something beautiful

I prefer html and css(or scss) minus the numbers, and straight php, via my preferred editior, notepad.exe. chatGPT calls me legacy.

I can make most 'modern' designs if given enough png images and box-shadows... not exactly easy for the babydevs to understand when i go to the 25± box-shadow arrays... *sigh* so that leaves me with some custom bootstrapping, typescript and react... and node... but I'm gonna stick to php for awhile.

...yeah, I'm a code dinosaur, or as chatGPT so lovingly calls me, legacy.

Also, it's been way over a decade... most shit hasn't changed since I started web dev for small businesses @8 ...so +23yrs

@retoor “Never created something beautiful” is such a beautiful line to say in web dev.

@Cyanide haha, yeah 😁

@Slow-Yep we should've stopped by extjs 😁 It's paid for a reason btw