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More often than otherwise, I’ve found code duplication preferable over abstraction. I only abstract code when I understand the problem space really, really well (I.e. have solved it before), or when I can have some certainty the wrong abstraction won’t cost me too much time to fix.
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"To serialize logic, we would just need to represent the AST in a lisp-like syntax". Why not use Hy ( http://hylang.org ) and keep your Django.
What are "Watcher Views"?
I think they mean the following. In Django, a view function, or view for short, is a Python function that takes a Web request and returns a Web response. So a watcher view is probably a view that returns an extremely short response. It's just telling you whether more data is available, or not. They mention websockets as an alternative that's far more complex.
What are "Watcher Views"?
Do you still have to poll a Watcher View - if it's an endpoint that tells you if the model is updated or not?
> Try to build a complex server-rendered web app with PHP because "It's more inclusive" or "it has better frontend performance". See you in 2030. Like Facebook, WordPress and MediaWiki? Bashing PHP is a popular pastime, but front-end performance and inclusion are not to be scoffed at. Especially not if your target audience has a different standard of living than that of a major European city. Personally, I'm much mor…
"Use Popular Tools", "Old Doesn't Mean Gold" and "Use The Right Tool" are all kind of contradictory. "Cool" and "popular" are usually correlated. "Old" might correlate inversely with "cool" but directly with the ease of finding plugins, Stack Overflow issues and blog posts. IMO, the criteria to use when evaluating a tool are 1) cost of building it yourself, 2) how well you know the tool, 3) how big the community is,…
It's odd the author chose Django because it's "popular" and dismissed PHP because it's "old". Laravel is far newer and more popular than Django and PHP is both newer and more popular for web dev than Python. Why would the author insinuate Laravel (and presumably WP and the rest of PHP) will be dead by 2030? For that matter, is it pragmatic for a startup to worry at all about what the best choice ten years in the futu…
> Why would the author insinuate Laravel (and presumably WP and the rest of PHP) will be dead by 2030? I think the author meant that writing a complex server-rendered webapp in PHP would take very long, hyperbolically saying it would take until 2030.
> Try to build a complex server-rendered web app with PHP because "It's more inclusive" or "it has better frontend performance". See you in 2030. Like Facebook, WordPress and MediaWiki? Bashing PHP is a popular pastime, but front-end performance and inclusion are not to be scoffed at. Especially not if your target audience has a different standard of living than that of a major European city. Personally, I'm much mor…
HN is going down in quality with trash like this.