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Having worked on a ui in this setting, built with erb, jquery, and pjax... It is not about the degree of difficulty building it, but extending/modifying it, and collaborating with multiple crews in the same codebase. These are problems enough teams have experienced that they have moved away from the approach of jquery+handlebars.
Now granted, SPAs have a bandwagon effect because of where the job opportunities are, so you get people using them not to solve those problems, but to align their technical skills with employable skills.
The statement was meant to provoke people, and honestly if it wasn’t Netflix nobody would give a damn. Because the real headline is “We chose the wrong tool for the job! Even pros make mistakes”.
Also, what led you to your curiosity of MTHFR? Are there other services you use to “hack your health”?
Having used ApiGateway + AWSLambda + AWSCloudwatch, I found Webtask to be infinitey easier to use and deploy. The only downside of Webtask, for some users, is that it is all Javascript, where AWSLambda allows multiple languages.
"Going away" was said about .NET and PHP and they don't seem to be going anywhere, albeit they are less popular than they use to be.
Too many discussions on HN have this paranoia lurking around of whether or not "I chose the right path". I find it unhealthy, and find that the longer life of a product exposes the weaknesses of any language/framework.
I could even see a Moments section that is fed off people you follow.
It sounds like these applicants wasted their time to help the Author write some bait click article to attract traffic.