[creesch]

Oh man, I totally forgot about the delphi IDE and the drag and drop editor for making GUIs. I only ever did encounter it in college (early 2000s) and for group projects it was really nice. Simply because it allowed you to prototype GUIs in the IDE and then instead of having to re-implement them in your markup language simply use those prototypes to build the functionality behind it.

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It's a bit of a different perspective as you describe.

> I have not seen anyone happy changing modern code (nextjs or so) that has not been touched for 5 years.

Yeah... even if you do faithfully update dependencies it isn't straightforward. The sort of stuff I work on is mostly used internally and overall is fairly simple as far as the UI goes. So, for a while now, I have done away with most dependencies where I can and switched to vanilla JS, HTML and CSS for this sort of tooling. Not only does this help me with future maintaining of these tools, it also makes the whole development process a lot smoother as there is no building involved.

I very much realize that I am in a somewhat luxury position here as I don't do client facing applications and most of them are fairly simple. But that's also my point, all too often I see very simple single purpose applications that make use of a complete ecosystem of modern frameworks where the same can easily be achieved without them.