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Modern devs are frustrated. They don't do anything of importance or significance anymore. They're not the guy designing a virtual memory manager for a novel OS. They're just some cog in a machine converting SQL queries into HTML to show ads to kids and old people.

One can only become cynical and bitter.

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Since the beginning, most developers in history wrote payroll and accounts software. Now they do cat photos sharing apps. If anything, I consider this an improvement.

Payroll, Accounts Receivable, etc. feels much more dignified than figuring how to deliver more brain-damaging ads.

Also, the whole extreme programming style was prototyped around hilariously big (for reasons called "USA" not bad code) payroll software for Chrysler.

spot on. plus using a lot of js because they don't know html and css (or just very superficially). :-)

JS is necessary to maintain state, can this be done with CSS and HTML?

Also, I'd say that manipulation of CSS classes and HTML elements with JS gives the developer quite a strong understanding of them.

Once again the confusion between "HTML document" and "Web App" bites again. A NYT article does not needs client side state.

You can get away with much less state with minimal JS like HTMX

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