I hope I don't qualify as "old", but I guess I've been programming since the early 00s...I miss the days when LAMP (+ XAMPP for local development) was more-or-less state-of-the-art for a website. PHP, despite its numerous deep flaws, really is a very pleasant way to write frontend code. I think what the web dev world needs is a modernized version of LAMP which:
* Is trivial to bootstrap
* Is totally serverless/scalable
* Can be run effectively for free with low levels of traffic, like an S3 static website
* Uses a non-broken PHP-like templating language (maybe jinja?)
* Uses Postgres instead of MySQL (ideally without infrastructure to manage, a la Aurora Serverless)
* Somehow intelligently figures out how to split between server-side and client-side rendering - ergo, you write templates like PHP and it seamlessly figures out bits that can be AJAX-ified to avoid full page-loads
If someone could just, like, make that, web development could be as fun as it was in the days of yore!
* Is trivial to bootstrap
* Is totally serverless/scalable
* Can be run effectively for free with low levels of traffic, like an S3 static website
* Uses a non-broken PHP-like templating language (maybe jinja?)
* Uses Postgres instead of MySQL (ideally without infrastructure to manage, a la Aurora Serverless)
* Somehow intelligently figures out how to split between server-side and client-side rendering - ergo, you write templates like PHP and it seamlessly figures out bits that can be AJAX-ified to avoid full page-loads
If someone could just, like, make that, web development could be as fun as it was in the days of yore!