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As someone who has always viewed the winds of web development trends with significant skepticism, this article is one of the best I've read at explaining why no, you don't need <x language/y architecture/z framework>. The technologies that powered the web ten years ago still work just fine. Even the ones that powered the web 20 years ago often still have their place. Keeping your stack boring is frequently the best decision for everyone, save for the career climber who wants to put the latest trends on their CV for the next job.



> The technologies that powered the web ten years ago still work just fine.

Yeah maybe for some use cases. Rails has a lot of bandaids to deal with the new stuff and GitLab uses that stuff.




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