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by vezzy-fnord 4245 days ago
Well, it's a fundamental issue that a lot of people miss. You can't keep arguing that everything should "just work" because those poor end users might get intimidated otherwise (which is really a codeword for dumbing it down and hiding it behind layers of nested abstraction, then serving it over a thick GUI), and then expect that everyone should learn to code.

It's a total disparity. I also completely disagree with the idea that "JavaScript is the new BASIC" and that every beginner should be introduced to web programming immediately, but it's better than nothing, I guess. Not that web application development isn't less of a clusterfuck than anything else. It's also far more prone to hype cycles and wheel reinvention.