New comment by throw2016 in "Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up quickly in 2018?"

Let's be frank. This is a place for marketing the newest thing where skepticism and scrutiny is not welcome and likely to be dismissed as 'grey beards' and 'people scared of change'.

So there is never any scrutiny, no experienced person is going to expose themselves to ridicule so all the problems are discovered years later only for a new one to take its place.

Ruby for instance has huge deployment problems, why the hell do you need a build environment on deployment and expose end users to installing hundreds of gems that may need to be compiled and can fail anytime? Same with the wild lands of NPM. It's as if people have endless time to go down all the rabbit holes.

On the other hand Facebook, Wikipedia, Wordpress, Slack and some of the most scalable sites online today use PHP. Yet according to the the hivemind PHP is somehow a disaster, and the next over-engineered complexity is the panacea. This is just not credible.

Unless there can be a way to apply scrutiny during the hype phase the cycle of over-engineering, needless complexity and offloading bad engineering on end users is going to continue.

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