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Everything under the sun, yesteryear's discarded technology will be re-tried under the guise of AI until a new buzzword catches attention.

Every new generation reinvents stuff previous generation tried and hated. I think it is natural and kind of funny. I’ve been doing software for over 20 years + being obsessed since late 90s and I especially enjoy oscillations between server and client computing - “let’s do everything on server and make client dumb” - (5 years later) - “noooo, ma responsiveness and user experience!!!”

NextJS and HTMLx are back to server :)

Dreamweaver, but you need to describe what you want instead of drag and drop.

I recall a coworker drawing a nasty looking rat on a whiteboard with the title "Rational Rose Rat hates you" after a similar encounter.

Why rat? Why not a rose divided by an integer?

Is this another abstraction on top of Next.js? I recently created a new Next app with

pnpm create next-app --example blog-starter

And the resulting directory is a whopping 338M monster. Wondering what this adds.

And, before that, 4GLs or Fourth Generation Languages, a term that sprung from a book titled "Applications Development Without Programmers".