The Wild Ride of Web Programming Languages: From Static Pages to Framework Wars
Picture this: it’s 1995, you’re rocking a dial-up connection that sounds like a robot having an existential crisis, and you’re trying to create your first website. Your toolkit? HTML tags that make modern developers weep with nostalgia, and CSS that… well, CSS barely existed. Fast-forward to today, and we’re drowning in frameworks, battling JavaScript fatigue, and somehow still arguing about semicolons. Welcome to the absolutely bonkers evolution of web programming languages – a journey that’s been more twisted than a pretzel factory explosion, yet somehow got us to where we can build entire applications that run in your browser while you’re simultaneously watching cat videos....