It has been so long since I've installed a LAMP server... environment... local host, whatever. Years. I've had zero interest in web development since I moved away from .NET websites in my work life. I am much happier in the console or querying databases. The little bit of web work I've done recently - the WorldWeaver site - has been painful. The basic core of web development - HTML, CSS, JS etc just feels hokey to me. I realize there are 'cooler' more 'now' ways of building sites, but the end result is the core tech the web has been running forever.
HTML is just a miserable markup syntax, I'm sorry. I've complained about it before. But it really is painful to write. So many brackets, so many quotes, equals signs, special characters, weird tags.
CSS has some elegance to it. I find it to be the most enjoyable piece of the web development puzzle.
JS as a language is nice, aside from my philosophical disagreements with it. It's a C style script/language so of course I like it. Buuut, what was its early purpose? Interacting with the DOM? But how much fun is plain JS when it's doing what it was originally designed to? Not at all. It is telling that you need frameworks just to use it. But with those frameworks it's pretty powerful and fun to write.
Anyway I'm so rusty I still haven't gotten my blogging framework installed. But yeah.
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