The Modern Web: A Precarious Tower Of Abstractions

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The Modern Web: A Precarious Tower Of Abstractions

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The modern web stack depicted as a bizarre Jenga tower is painfully accurate. At the bottom, we have C developers creating dynamic arrays—the unsung heroes holding up the entire digital world while everyone else gets the glory. DNS and the Linux Foundation form the next layer, because who needs stable naming conventions anyway?

AWS and unpaid open source devs make up the core infrastructure, with Cloudflare and AI tacked on as essential afterthoughts. Microsoft is off doing... whatever Microsoft does, probably rebranding something again. And somewhere in that precarious middle, you're just trying to build a simple web app while everything shifts beneath you.

Meanwhile, Rust developers are floating away in their own perfect little universe, blissfully unaware that the rest of us are just trying to keep this monstrosity from collapsing.

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