[monkeycantype]

I’m about to start a new job, I’ve worked on and off at my current work place for about 13 years spread out over the last 20 years. We were an early start up and we did web development in c and then later c++ because the web browser and the database and web server and the os were all c/c++ so why wouldn’t we use it? We switched to c# and python and js/ts for new dev at some point because we couldn’t hire c++ devs at the same rates, that switch killed the company, but to us along time see it. Well the company’s not going to die, but it’s not going to be a software company anymore.

Our 20 year old c++ runs fine, and has been straight forward to extend. Everything else got caught up in endless cycles of framework updates and paradigm shifts, leaving slag heaps of angular 1 and early dot net abandonware, years of work dumped because dependencies and frameworks were out of support. It’s become such an unruly mess that if all goes to plan they’ll shut it all down, move on to a competitor technology, which I understand is all c++

[beginnings]

Yeah web is pretty crazy, I only got into it recently but ive noticed that the major frameworks are not really rivals like their users, they are all sharing ideas and maybe it's converging towards a bit more stability. Im bullish on SolidJS to live up to the name, the creator Ryan Carniato has a wealth of knowledge in that area having been through the whole web roller coaster, and he is getting close to "this is how it should be done".