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by PunksATawnyFill 2205 days ago
That's interesting. I am an iOS developer, and find development for browser deployment to be a mountain of hokey crap and flavor-of-the-week frameworks all so you can kind of cajole MOST browsers to more-or-less show what you want where you want it on the screen.

And then you have to write all the serialization and back-end support on the server side, or use yet another flavor-of-the-week stack to broker all of the back-and-forth.
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javajosh 2205 days ago
But all of that is optional stuff for the web, even though it isn't presented as such. You don't actually need a transpiler, bundler, fancy libraries etc to write interactive programs for the browser. You really can do everything in an HTML file with some html, javascript, and some css. You can draw pictures declaratively with svg, or programmatically with canvas. And so on. You can see some nice work done in this way in places like codepen.io
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g_p 2205 days ago
Oh the browser/JS world is far from perfect too - the NIH-isms and re-invention of the wheel in stacked and layered frameworks is definitely a problem on the web.

I think it will come down to the level of abstraction that works and makes sense, while helping enable building things, though still focusing on the business logic, not the boilerplate.

I guess this is still one of the many un-solved problems!

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