alt Hacker News> That doesn't change the fact that HN is a dirt simple message board anybody could build.
What is this an objection to? If you follow this thread upwards, where was it suggested that we should be talking about things so complex that nobody, or only very few, could build? The whole pitch of htmx is that it is proposed for building things that anybody could build. The article in the title assumes that the target audience isn't building Google Docs, Figma, video editors, or CAD tools.
It's an objection to this:
> How many jobs do you see on the market that ask for Lisp? And yet, for what it is, this site is amazing! I don't see them rushing to migrate to a python backend and a react-based frontend, no matter how many jobs there are for those.
You pointing out that the dumb simple message board is written in LISP and doesn't need anymore more is a bit absurd.
No shit they aren't rushing to upgrade it. IT BARELY DOES ANYTHING TO BEGIN WITH.
Anytime a certain class of developer see the word "React" that end up saying the most ridiculous shit. Nobody, I mean nobody, thinks HN is a site worthy of replicating or achieving unless they're part of the .0000002% who couldn't find a prepackaged board from Google search results.