[collyw]

"Web frameworks consist of a lot of things besides pure programming. And these beginners barely understand programming...hell, they barely understand basic file systems that don't involve folder icons. And so all of this stuff...databases, MVC design, object-oriented concepts, dev ops, debugging...oh, and the entire world of front-end design...is thrown at them in such a way that there is no way they can decouple what are mostly orthogonal concepts."

On the other hand, you don't need to use all these things.

When I learned Java, we were told don't worrry about "public static void main" just now, it will become clearer later. It did. I don't remeber them ever explianing that line, but explaining all the parts of it at different times.

Likewise, using Django or Rails, I am sure you can have a basic development server set up, and just let it call your code much like pressing a button would have done in visual basic in the past. You don't need to overcomplicate things.