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I feel the same as an old school PHP dipping into JS land occasionally. Lots of problems were solved, but of course somebody needed to create a fancy new “framework” and a new solution. Stuff like “static site generation” dont need over 300 new and different frameworks to solve it but i guess thats just engineering. We like to do it ourselves instead of “trusting” the old farts.

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I used PHP for years since it's quite popular in this part of the world.

For someone like me, "server-side rendering" introduced in JS land (particularly for React projects, but not only them) is one of the stupidest things I've seen in my life. We had this solved in the 90s and it didn't require converting a client framework into a server one (all while pulling in 2000 dependencies), and a multi-stage build process. Thankfully, the whole IT sphere is large enough now that we can just pretend this kind of stuff doesn't exist and avoid companies that use it.

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