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by Xenoamorphous 211 days ago
The web is not getting any simpler.
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Exactly, I'd even argue that web development (back & front-end) is by far the largest job / industry in software development.
I don't see how making a language more complex can help with that. Complex languages makes sense for system programming where you want to squeeze some performance.
Making a language more complex often leads to simpler code. Keeping a language too simple often forces overly complex code.