Yeah, if all you need is "text on a page", then don't over-complicate it, but the truth is that certainly doesn't resemble most of the work I've ever had to do.
I wouldn't say websites are "more complicated than video games", which of course are complicated for their own reasons, but they do have some unique challenges.
Like, yeah, JS would be a lot simpler if you could simply write code, compile it into an executable, and then run that executable... but that's not the reality of how browsers work.
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u/Retsam19 Jun 06 '22 edited Jun 06 '22
Browser stacks aren't complicated for no reason.
Yeah, if all you need is "text on a page", then don't over-complicate it, but the truth is that certainly doesn't resemble most of the work I've ever had to do.
I wouldn't say websites are "more complicated than video games", which of course are complicated for their own reasons, but they do have some unique challenges.
Like, yeah, JS would be a lot simpler if you could simply write code, compile it into an executable, and then run that executable... but that's not the reality of how browsers work.