Spent a couple hours today setting up a thing to generate price/stock lists to send to my retail partners - with automatic calculation of the wholesale price and live currency conversion (pulling data from the Bank of Canada) according to the retailer's location and the deal they have with me. Used Perl and LaTeX because that's what those things are for. I wonder how long it would have taken if done with more recent Javascript-based technology.
@mattskala It's not just the time the task takes (it may be more, it may be less), but mostly how rage-inducing JavaScript is, at least for me.
@josemanuel Well, yes, and also fragility... I suspect there are "frameworks" and "microservices" with which this could be accomplished very quickly indeed - but at the cost of making the entire thing dependent on multiple external subscriptions.
And an entire generation of programmers who know no other way to work.
