"Everything we do to make it harder to create a website or edit a web page, and harder to learn to code by viewing source, promotes that consumerist vision of the web.
Pretending that one needs a team of professionals to put simple articles online will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Overcomplicating the web means lifting up the ladder that used to make it possible for people to teach themselves and surprise everyone with unexpected new ideas."
idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
@grainloom Actually, my experience is the exact opposite of the one in the quote. The proliferation of frameworks that promise to make it all oh so easy leads managers to think that programming is something that anybody can do. That makes our work economically undervalued and socially underappreciated, breaks teams apart (why do we need five people when just one intern can do it?) and yields awful results.
