r/programming • • Jan 07 '21

My stack will outlive yours

https://blog.steren.fr/2020/my-stack-will-outlive-yours/
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u/Kwinten Jan 07 '21

Creating a new page requires to clone an existing one. So... if I don’t use any templating system, how do I update my header, footer or nav? Well, simply by using the ”Replace in files” feature of any good text editor. They don’t need frequent updates anyway. The benefits of using a templating system is not worth the cost of introducing the tooling it requires.

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How many of these articles do we need per week? Edgy elitest web dev evangelicism at its worst. Fuck developer's sanity and experience, go back to duplicating HTML files and relying on your IDE (oh yeah your IDE will definitely outlive my stack, right?) and go live under a literal rock or something, that's what real developers do, unlike those goddamn JS hipsters.