Okay this whole article is hilarious. I still don’t want to use HTMX but now I will happily not use it, rather than angrily not use it like I do with golang.
You should try HTMX and Golang together, it's an amazingly productive way to build internal tools. Our JS framework of choice is react, but the time it takes to configure a new project in our mono-repo I could've build the whole tool with HTMX and Go. This isn't to shit on react (or our setup) they are both excellent, it's simply to highlight just how productive you can be with those tools.
It's a "use responsible" sort of tech stack though, but for a lot of things... well... it's fine. We're talking about a world where the alternative might be giving some team excel access directly to a production DB. Which is infinitely stupid x 2, but it still happens if development moves too slow.
HTMX fits into the middle ground: websites that are too dynamic to be made with a SSG or CMS, but not dynamic enough to be a SPA.
I don’t work on enough things that fit into that category to justify learning an entire new framework. I’d rather just write React or even use plain JS.
HTMX obviously can’t be used to build a SPA, so even if it were incredible I would still have to keep my React skills up. I’d also worry that if I build something in HTMX and it increases in scope, I’d end up rewriting it in React or maintaining a bird’s nest. It’s easy for me to tell the difference between webthings that “need to be SSG’d” and “needs React”, if I insert HTMX in the middle then I’d be second guessing if I made the right choice.
As for Golang, again I’m just not the target market for it. It took them so long to decide to add generics. For me generics are a basic feature not a nice to have. I don’t agree with the goals of the language, so there’s no point in me learning it.
No, it's not. Just think about your stress levels commuting, people infecting you with all kinds of diseases at work that lower your quality of life and have the chance to impair you to a great extend.
My commute isn’t your commute, and you can’t make blanket statements like that.
My stress level while commuting is basically zero. Tbh the commute makes me less stressed because it’s a nice time to listen to audio books and provides a physical barrier to “transition” into work mode. I dislike RTO for other reasons, but my stress level was higher while WFH than it is from commuting.
There are plenty of stressful jobs you can find yourself in, and having kids exposes you to far more diseases than working in an office.
Nothing is guaranteed, and if you're young having a few stressful years now then retiring is certainly easier than working dead end jobs for another 20.
What if you don't find commuting (I have a 12 minutes commute against the flow of traffic, I kind of like getting out and seeing the city and I enjoy driving), and aren't too worried about "all kinds of diseases at work" (i.e. Covid, Flu, and colds)? To be honest, you seem very paranoid about the risk of impairment by disease caught from coworker at your presumably white-collar tech job. This is minuscule. Does it surprise you that other's might not find your example to "just think" about not compelling at all?
Bro just make a bunch of SEO based casino/sportsbook affiliate marketing sites or some content farm. In 3 years you will have enough money to do any startup you want.
