HTMX, The “Framework Stupid” Gets Dialed Up To Eleven!

I have said for ages that the people who CREATE frameworks are generally ignorant of the most basic concepts behind web development. They don’t know or understand HTML and semantic markup; they fail to grasp why the separation of concerns between HTML, CSS, and JS exists; they never once consider media targets, accessibility, HTTP parallelism, or any other meaningful metric of quality website development.

Basically they put their ignorance on full display, then attribute all sorts of unfounded merits to whatever they’ve done hoping that everyone else pats them on the back for it.

And it’s scary how many people will pat them on the back and say “well done” for these monuments to the ugliest of mid 1990’s development practices.

That lack of understanding is why they build alternatives. They either never learned, refused to learn, or didn’t find out where or even why things are done a certain way, and go diving to say “i can do better” before they even know what “better” is… much less have the ability to recognize how badly they are screwing themselves, and everyone else who gets suckered into thinking the nonsense is magically “easier”, “better”, or any of the other glittering generalities and propaganda driven bunko being peddled.