<story><title>LuaX: A Lua Dialect with JSX</title><url>https://bvisness.me/luax/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codingdave</author><text>The project itself seems fine, and clearly works for the author.&lt;p&gt;But I&amp;#x27;m never quite sure why people insist that you cannot do web dev the old school ways of HTML files with a little PHP or other scripting. All of that still works just fine. So when people say they wrote an entirely new system because they miss being able to stay simple like in ye olde days... I&amp;#x27;m not sure I understand the connection.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hgs3</author><text>You are correct. The minimum needed to generate dynamic HTML is a string builder, not a fancy framework.&lt;p&gt;Frameworks exist for Software at Scale (TM). Big Corp has a revolving door of developers and they need cookie cutter tools that isolate the damage a &amp;quot;bad&amp;quot; developer can cause. If you&amp;#x27;re a solo developer or a small company, then this digital bureaucracy is unnecessary.</text></comment>
<story><title>LuaX: A Lua Dialect with JSX</title><url>https://bvisness.me/luax/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codingdave</author><text>The project itself seems fine, and clearly works for the author.&lt;p&gt;But I&amp;#x27;m never quite sure why people insist that you cannot do web dev the old school ways of HTML files with a little PHP or other scripting. All of that still works just fine. So when people say they wrote an entirely new system because they miss being able to stay simple like in ye olde days... I&amp;#x27;m not sure I understand the connection.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>partyguy</author><text>Exactly.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; When I started out, you could just copy HTML files up to your server and you had a website. It was magical! And PHP made it even better; you could just throw in a little snippet of server-side code and you had a dynamic page.&lt;p&gt;Well, you can still very much do this. Sure, it&amp;#x27;s not bleeding edge, but large chunks of the web (even newer sites) still do it this way and rely on PHP or sinilar server side languages.</text></comment>