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Have you tried Go? I do my web apps in Go and all I need in my computer is the `go` binary installed. Nothing else. I use plain JS, CSS and HTML; which seems enough if combined with the Go templating system.

It's not the backend that's the problem. That's trivial. But browser are just so annoying. HTML + CSS looks slightly different on all browsers. Web API that don't work in all browsers. Basic stuff like file saving not being available. And don't get me started on CSS. I have never met anyone that truly understands CSS. It's all just throwing shit at the wall until it sticks.

> The shit you have to go through to make basic stuff work is insane.

Isn't that always the case when you are jumping on a new area?

It is almost as if writing the low level code required to make a browser run well is hard...

How much of that hardness is necessary, though? Backward compatibility is quite costly.