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by was_boring 3467 days ago
How did we as an industry go from "create a blog in 10 minutes" with rails to a "create a twitter clone in 7 days"?

It seems we have gone backwards in terms of speed of getting things done in the last decade.
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drieddust 3467 days ago
Not really creating a blog in 10 minutes using a framework is very different from learning to build a twitter clone with without one is not comparable in my view.
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repsilat 3467 days ago
Back in undergrad I picked up PHP for the first time one day and built a blog with comments in one sitting. Super easy, anyone could do it, no frameworks (or javascript) required.
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drieddust 3467 days ago
How did you do ajax requests without js?
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repsilat 3467 days ago
Ajax might have existed back then, but it was probably still called "DHTML" :-).

To be honest I'm not really sure why you'd want javascript running on a blog today let alone more than decade ago.

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