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You can build those things in modern frameworks, it will just be more headache and will feel outdated in 6 months.

Where are my backbone apps? In the trash? Me ember apps? Next to them. My create-react-apps? On top of those. My Next apps? Being trashed as we speak. My rails apps? Online and making money every year with minimal upgrade time. What the hell was I thinking.

I'm guessing you avoided the CoffeeScript era of Rails, which is a good thing.

6 years ago I was writing apps in typescript and react, if I was starting a new project today I'd write it in typescript and react.

People bicker about PHP and Javascript, sorry Typescript, like they aren't both mule languages peoppe pick up to get work done. They both matured really well through years of production use.

They are in the same group, similar pedigree. If you were programming purely for the art of it, you would have had time to discover much nicer languages than either, but that's not what most people are doing so it doesn't really matter. They're different but they're about as good as eachother.

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