[OJFord]

Compared to now?! Or you mean it was already terrible by then, bring back HTML, CSS, and Flash?

[scrollaway]

I agree with GP, that stack described above was a fucking nightmare.

Typescript and react are a joy to work with. I miss them every day I do only python, which has been my bread and butter for 16 years.

The framework landscape for SSR is not as good but it's getting there definitely. Nextjs is promising nowadays.