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dimal05/03/20252 repliesview on HN

I know it’s possible to work around it, but that’s not the point. This is such a common use case that it seems worthwhile to pave the cowpath. We’ve paved a lot of cowpaths that are far less trodden than this one. This is practically a cow superhighway.

We’ve built an industry around solving this problem. What if, for some basic web publishing use cases, we could replace a complex web framework with one new tag?


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econ05/03/2025

I couldn't agree more.

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lelanthran05/04/2025

> We’ve built an industry around solving this problem. What if, for some basic web publishing use cases, we could replace a complex web framework with one new tag?

I actually did that replacement, with a few enhancements (maybe 100 lines of code, total?). It's in arxiv pending at the moment. In about two days it will be done and I'll post a Show HN here.

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