[iamdave]

This seems like a decent primer for someone who already has their heads wrapped around application development, but absolutely horrid for someone who wants to pick up a web language for the first time and create that first simple output.

That first simple output IMO is critical for retention and engaging the language knowing exactly what you're going to get by looking at dirt simple code like echo hello world; at least it was for me as PHP was one of my very first languages

The intent is well meaning in this "real world" hello world, but I feel like taking the espoused mentality in the opening paragraph, one is throwing construction tools at a toddler who asked for a box of legos for christmas.

Curious what others think

[halfdan]

You do realise this article wasn't written as a beginner's tutorial but as a sarcastic view of modern web dev?

[SFJulie]

And where is the VM, the docker images, the swarm in the cloud to make HA and the right https configuration ?

[iDemonix]

I hope that VM is behind Elastic Beanstalk

[iamdave]

Admittedly, no I didn't.

What's the tell? I obviously missed it :(