[Go Make Things] Is the tide finally turning?

By rahmat hidayat

Friday, August 30, 2024

​ This week, the New Stack published an article about Developers Rail Against JavaScript "Merchants of Complexity"… AI app developer Pieter Levels explained that he builds all his apps with vanilla HTML, PHP, a bit of JavaScript via jQuery, and SQLite. No fancy JavaScript frameworks, no modern programming languages, no Wasm. jQuery feels unnecessary to me in 2024 (modern vanilla JS is absurdly capable), but it's delightful to see people finally realizing PHP is really good, actually… "I'm seeing a revival now," said Levels, regarding PHP. "People are getting sick of frameworks. All the JavaScript frameworks are so… what do you call it, like [un]wieldy. It takes so much work to just maintain this code, and then it updates to a new version, you need to change everything. PHP just stays the same and works." The article also highlights Alex Russell's four-part series on how JavaScript-obsessed web dev has broken public service websites in the United States. It's taken my entire career as a front end dev, but it finally feels like maybe, just maybe, the tide against needless complexity is finally turning. Cheers, Chris ​ Want to share this with others or read it later? View it in a browser.​ ​

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