[HN Gopher] Building an "Easy" Web Application
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       Building an "Easy" Web Application
        
       Author : luu
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2025-02-07 00:40 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | xnx wrote:
       | (2020)
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       | > Three days wasted. I should have just written the PHP script .
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       | The good news is that any leading class LLM today would certainly
       | be able to one-shot translation of the script from Python to PHP
       | or create it in PHP.
        
       | codelikeawolf wrote:
       | > It was also getting harder and harder to debug as JavaScript
       | has no timeout functionality I would have had to wrap that
       | request in another promise.
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       | I'm pretty sure you could use an AbortController to address this?
       | But it's one of those things you have to know about. I
       | _completely_ understand the author 's frustration with CORS, but
       | I don't think JS is to blame here. I have felt a similar level of
       | frustration whenever I try to use a language other than JS to
       | work with JSON. Does that mean the language sucks? I would say
       | no. I don't think this made a compelling case for avoiding JS,
       | but I would never want to deny someone the catharsis from venting
       | about technology.
        
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