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by Kajayacht 3111 days ago
The problem is when tools that are targeted for rapid development start getting used for large, mission-critical applications. The people using these tools professionally often are not the greatest engineers and you end up with a giant mess of an application using technology that is no longer supported. The company I currently work for is in this situation right now with Oracle Forms.

Going with your specific example of beginner web dev, the basic HTML site of today is Wordpress