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by neetle 1676 days ago
How is "go build ." and scp more complex than managing an integration with a 3rd party using a proprietary API
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> How is "go build ." and scp more complex

You have to define what do you mean by "complex". For starters, you don't need go build or scp at all.

> managing an integration with a 3rd party using a proprietary API

Nothing to "manage" really. You just drag and drop your static files. There are no API calls, no handling exceptions or debugging build errors. Everything is automated for you.

If the 3rd party goes down for whatever reason, you can always host it on your own or on any other 3rd party competing services (which there are now plenty of that follow similar model).

Either ways, web hosting inherently is hosting on a 3rd party. It is literally impossible to host everything on your own without any sort of dependency on something: even if you buy your own physical server rack, you still are dependent on electricity provided by your Government, your internet service provider giving you uninterrupted connectivity, DNS for resolving your domain, your domain registrar etc. There is always going to be some 3rd party dependency. Whether you like it or not. If this makes you uncomfortable, just confine to developing standalone apps. You are trying to define complexity in an inherently dynamic environment that web apps run in.