Comment by mexicocitinluez
23 days ago
> The Hacker News website runs on Lisp.
You mean the message board? The website that has a grand total of 2 functions: post and comment?
> And yet, for what it is, this site is amazing!
It's 2 colors and text. That's it.
> ! I don't see them rushing to migrate to a python backend and a react-based frontend, no matter how many jobs there are for those.
It's A MESSAGE BOARD. A. MESSAGE. BOARD.
> It's A MESSAGE BOARD. A. MESSAGE. BOARD.
Have you seen how many blog or portfolio sites people build with react? Sometimes even adding nextjs into the mix? Blogs!
So? That doesn't change the fact that HN is a dirt simple message board anybody could build.
> That doesn't change the fact that HN is a dirt simple message board anybody could build.
What is this an objection to? If you follow this thread upwards, where was it suggested that we should be talking about things so complex that nobody, or only very few, could build? The whole pitch of htmx is that it is proposed for building things that anybody could build. The article in the title assumes that the target audience isn't building Google Docs, Figma, video editors, or CAD tools.
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