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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by akash_rawal@lemmy.world to c/programming_horror@programming.dev

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[–] Zeth0s@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I have seen frontends written in c#. Nothing surprises me anymore

[–] etler@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago

After experiencing struts everything else looks great in comparison

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago

All programming was intended to take place within Rust

[–] Hexarei@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Web development is, and will always be, just a game of finding increasingly ~~cursed~~ unique ways to concatenate HTML strings

[–] cadekat@pawb.social 0 points 2 years ago

One day I'll find a reason to use html!. One day.

[–] o11c@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago

The problem is that what everybody really wants is parameterization, not concatenation. But most solutions therefor are flaky even if they exist.