2 years ago

Much like how a stopped watch is right twice a day, it seems that, in the world of technology, if you just stay around long enough, the methods you knew long ago become the way to do things once again. Since the early days of networked computing, Finley writes, technology has been a pendulum swing, back and forth between server-side and client-side processing, with the past decade dominated by client-side JavaScript.

And on this point, Finley certainly sides with you, as he recounts the “(not so) good old days of web development”, as he puts it.

This point is one we’ve seen increasingly lately in the world of frontend (or backend as frontend, as it were) development.

“For Rust 2024, I don’t want us to do that. I think Rust is awesome. But I think Rust could be awesomer.”