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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by akash_rawal@lemmy.world to c/programming_horror@programming.dev

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[–] Hexarei@programming.dev 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Web development is, and will always be, just a game of finding increasingly ~~cursed~~ unique ways to concatenate HTML strings

[–] cadekat@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago

One day I'll find a reason to use html!. One day.

[–] o11c@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

The problem is that what everybody really wants is parameterization, not concatenation. But most solutions therefor are flaky even if they exist.