Front end versus back end. The people who make programming languages are back-end developers. Their strengths lie with making something that works, not something that looks pretty.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 8 points 3 days ago

I would argue backend languages are infinitely Easter than frontend

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I beg to differ

I can read plain-text PHP, Python or Ruby code.
I can't read plain-text, uncoloured HTML or Vue code.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 1 points 8 hours ago

I can't read plain-text, uncoloured HTML

That's all we had back in the day. The only difference that jumps out to me is having attributes, but that's still not that crazy. Even back when I did web stuff, I used notepad++ without any particular higlighting the vast majority of the time for plain HTML (though not JS).