I loved Plato on my TI-99/4A computer when I was a kid. I credit it with helping me become a much better student. When my oldest son was struggling in grammar school, 15 years ago, I got it running on the Mame emulator for him, and it turned him and then his sibling into excellent students!
I don't understand why there isn't an even better version of this in the modern age. A complete curriculum K-12 that is self-driven in a similar manner. Mostly the same methodology of mostly reading and images with quizzes after sections. Then a total category exam. Maybe scatter in short effective videos, but it should not be video centered!
We moved away from ClojureScript entirely. We just run a plain ole java uberjar with the Clojure/ring/hiccup/Compojure spitting out the HTML with whatever htmx attributes and response headers we need. There are instances where we may need to sprinkle in some javascript for some extra dynamic things - which turns out to be very infrequent. Instead of sprinkling in the javascript, we have been using _hyperscript instead - love _hyperscript.
Yeah, so moving to htmx has allowed us to jettison ClojureScript which just entailed too many parts. As a matter of fact, before going more htmx with our projects, we had moved away from ClojureScript to React directly.
That's fair. I agree - that type of blanket statement is not helpful in the technical realm. I should have kept it at just: HTML should have continued to be expanded into what htmx is doing.
I have had good success and a rewarding experience using htmx the past year. It has been so great in tandem with Clojure using hiccup for SSR.
Once htmx clicks for you, you are almost left stunned by how simple and flexible it is. You can't believe that this isn't how HTML evolved to as a hypermedia. It becomes very obvious that this is how web development should have evolved. I hope someday that what htmx is doing through javascript becomes baked right into HTML and the browser clients.
If you are mistakenly believing it is just some derivative of Angular or you are not grasping the significance of its advancement of the architecture of hypermedia, please do yourself a favor and read the excellent essays on their site; you will then truly understand what REST is and what the importance of real HATEOAS means: https://htmx.org/essays/
We made a costly wrong turn 10 -15 years ago by attempting to rebuild thick clients on the web with a JSON API architecture instead of expanding and enriching the new and powerful idea of the early web: hypermedia.
htmx is so wonderful. We have had amazing success utilizing it and returning to a hypermedia approach to web dev. The essays go into detail of why this is.
I have immensely enjoyed and benefited from using htmx for the past 18 months on projects with Clojure as the backend language. I had done years of full-stack Angular then React on the front-end and Java Rest endpoints on the back-end with teams of all sizes.
htmx has been a revelation and has really opened my eyes to the nuances of hypermedia development modalities that I was ignorant of. For me, it has become very clear that htmx and hypermedia development is far more simple, productive, beneficial, and FUN for 90% of web dev use cases. I feel huge disappointment how unnecessarily web development evolved into bad client server rpc json protocol for basically everything web.
Kudos to the htxm creator and his vision of what should have been. My experience absolutely corroborates his thinking on these things.
htmx has provided the greatest satisfaction and production of my 30-year programming career. After a year of constant development experience with it, I am confident that this is the proper method of building web applications. It truly is how HTML should have evolved.
I don't understand why there isn't an even better version of this in the modern age. A complete curriculum K-12 that is self-driven in a similar manner. Mostly the same methodology of mostly reading and images with quizzes after sections. Then a total category exam. Maybe scatter in short effective videos, but it should not be video centered!