nextjs is in a class of software that should not exists (backend-for-frontend). You can have an SPA and an API in any backend language/framework.

Just a simple PHP backend (Laravel or symfony) with React or Vue as the frontend is probably less headache and less costly than this Next.js montrosity.

In a recent project i used Inertia as a layer to communicate between Laravel and React and I must say, its a breeze. No more frontend API endpoints needed.

seems pretty reasonable to me. it's not that it's 100% accurate. it's that anything that has higher barrier to entry automatically acts as a filter.

complied languages, esoteric languages, i mean it's pretty reasonable. you have to go out of your way to learn more stuff and there's more pain. ergo: you're probably "better" than a script kiddie that "vibe coded" a boilerplate saas to launch their influencer passive income side hustle

There's no marketable benefit to using Mootools to build web apps at the moment.