[bugfix]

What is so special about this? This is the way websites have been doing syntax highlighting before people started using javascript libraries.

[mixedCase]

There's a increasingly larger amount of web developers who are only "trained in React/Angular/Vue" and are unable to understand how to use or the trade-offs of regular websites using just HTML+CSS with only a little or no JS (that goes for both templated or fully static sites), and a surprising number of them even thinking they are some kind of "legacy technology".

At the very least, this kind of article is informative for that crowd.

[simonw]

I'm fascinated by this. It seems that for any developer with less than five years of industry experience there's a reasonable chance that they've almost exclusively worked in an SPA, JavaScript-for-everything environment.

I have a hunch that there are a lot of web professionals out there these days who genuinely don't know how to build a web application without JavaScript - POST forms, cookies and the like.

[thrower123]

This is why we end up with a new reinvention of make every five years.

The churn rate on junior developers is probably the single biggest factor in software over the past two decades.

[earthboundkid]

You should make a video with a rebranded Django as “Reinhardt, the Multi Page Application” and see how it goes. Just do the original Rails “blog in ten minutes” demo to show it goes beyond todo lists.

[genericstorage3]

I think it's wasted work/experience as css alone can't do everything.

Then you'll end up having a project with highlighting logic in css and js. That's less than optimal

[amatecha]

Right, looks like it's just preprocessing the content with a static site generator to insert markup + CSS classes around the different syntactical pieces. /shrug