There’s far more venture capital than innovative ideas and the business problems are rarely hard to solve. Engineers get bored so we have a constant flow of new languages, frameworks, and lately, an overwhelming focus on tooling and infrastructure.
At the end of the day, most companies are just generating dynamic HTML after performing some rudimentary CRUD database operations. It’s disappointing so
much time and money is spent only to arrive at the same place that /cgi-bin/ and a perl script solved over two decades ago.
At the end of the day, most companies are just generating dynamic HTML after performing some rudimentary CRUD database operations. It’s disappointing so much time and money is spent only to arrive at the same place that /cgi-bin/ and a perl script solved over two decades ago.