I wrote: > It's hard to \*reuse\* HTML And not: > It's hard to use HTML Anyhow, ... | Hacker News

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		pid-1 on Jan 31, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: In defence of the boring web I wrote: > It's hard to reuse HTML And not: > It's hard to use HTML Anyhow, assuming you are not trolling, my point is: writing plain HTML is not productive, as I need to repeat myself all the time. I can't create my own abstractions for reuse, as I would in most programming languages.

austincheney on Jan 31, 2022 [–]

HTML is not a programming language. HTML is a data structure as are JSON and YAML. Many people choose to solve for reuse with a programming language.

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