You're probably getting old, but the truth is that modern stacks are stupidly complex.
Layer after layer of abstraction, along with immense bloat. I've run immensely complex web properties on hardware 20 years ago, that dwarfed what the average dev deploys today, yet without all that cruft?
Well, let play php and node, and use laravel as an example. Eaily 10000x the codebase, for the same result.
It's not efficient, or lean, or performant at all.
But it does do one thing.
Allow people without extensive security, database, and coding experience to push safe code quickly.
You can throw a new grad at Laravel, and they're off to the races.
I liken it to C replacing assembler. A way to abstract.
Layer after layer of abstraction, along with immense bloat. I've run immensely complex web properties on hardware 20 years ago, that dwarfed what the average dev deploys today, yet without all that cruft?
Well, let play php and node, and use laravel as an example. Eaily 10000x the codebase, for the same result.
It's not efficient, or lean, or performant at all.
But it does do one thing.
Allow people without extensive security, database, and coding experience to push safe code quickly.
You can throw a new grad at Laravel, and they're off to the races.
I liken it to C replacing assembler. A way to abstract.
It is sad though.