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What is so special about this? This is the way websites have been doing syntax highlighting before people started using javascript libraries.

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There's a increasingly larger amount of web developers who are only "trained in React/Angular/Vue" and are unable to understand how to use or the trade-offs of regular websites using just HTML+CSS with only a little or no JS (that goes for both templated or fully static sites), and a surprising number of them even thinking they are some kind of "legacy technology".

At the very least, this kind of article is informative for that crowd.

I'm fascinated by this. It seems that for any developer with less than five years of industry experience there's a reasonable chance that they've almost exclusively worked in an SPA, JavaScript-for-everything environment.

I have a hunch that there are a lot of web professionals out there these days who genuinely don't know how to build a web application without JavaScript - POST forms, cookies and the like.

You should make a video with a rebranded Django as “Reinhardt, the Multi Page Application” and see how it goes. Just do the original Rails “blog in ten minutes” demo to show it goes beyond todo lists.

This is why we end up with a new reinvention of make every five years.

The churn rate on junior developers is probably the single biggest factor in software over the past two decades.

I think it's wasted work/experience as css alone can't do everything.

Then you'll end up having a project with highlighting logic in css and js. That's less than optimal

Right, looks like it's just preprocessing the content with a static site generator to insert markup + CSS classes around the different syntactical pieces. /shrug

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