[msie]

I went to a simple website developed probably in the 90's with a simplistic comment board that let anyone submit a comment and specify their name. It was one of the best web experiences I had this week. Loaded up quickly and didn't have any useless animation. Did its job of letting users communicate with each other. No complex web framework needed.

I think complex web frameworks are developed by expert coders to make their lives easier, supposedly. With little concern for other less-expert developers. But it just turns out to be so complex because they are trying to DRY the shit out of everything.

[chipsy]

When I realized that exposing configuration options is not DRY I was able to break away from most frameworks. Within the scope of your own project it's faster to change code, and once you do that you can start to customize it further.

[mr_nobody]

That's the point, these days it's even to start without IDE supporting code completion because of tons of vendors.