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Some recommendations for fun (web) programming:

- Forget about the JavaScript ecosystem, don't even touch it, it's a monster

- Use htmx on the front-end (https://htmx.org/)

- Use plain-old CSS with minimum dependencies (sanitize.css)

- Use lightweight CSS framework if you need one (bulma or purecss)

- Use Go on the backend (all other modern languages are bloated)

- Use AWS Lambda

- Use DynamoDB if you don't need data processing

- Use Postgres if you hate or don't want to learn DynamoDB

- Compile SQL to type-safe code (https://sqlc.dev/)



Meh. I enjoy doing full stack javascript work over all other stack including Go. To each their own I guess.


If you already know the javascript ecosystem then it's probably fun. But if you don't its heavily draining. Also Go is decidedly antifun so maybe not a good comparison.




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