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📣 vanilla-almond

'Unconventional' languages for web development?


Are you using building or maintaining a web app (e.g. a server-side CRUD app) using a language not usually associated with web development? What is the language? Do you enjoy using the language for web development and does it meet your needs? Or would you rather use another language?


  👤 gervwyk Accepted Answer ✓
Yes YAML. We have built https://lowdefy.com to enable us to create web apps in YAML - It makes creating web apps as simple as writing a query.

Over the past couple or years, we have been developing apps for internal use in companies. These apps needed to change a lot. Eventually we found the current stack just to complicated for these kind of things, and tried to imagine something better The challenge was coming up with a way to do it by only writing config, while maintaining a way to embed all the front-end logic - our current approach works really well for us.

Also I have not tried Flutter / Dart yet, but it looks promising! https://betterprogramming.pub/flutter-is-about-to-win-over-t...


👤 kjrose
I've done web development using RPG. It was super useful to figure out because it allowed us to take a ton of legacy reports and systems and quickly build web interfaces for it without having to sort out the full structure of incredibly complex data systems.