Launch HN: Wasp (YC W21) – DSL for building full-stack web apps
I get the sentiment. I understand the problem. The amount of disjointed tools that need to be strung together to build the proverbial todo list in the modern web ecosystem is beyond ridiculous. So much so that most of the people at my company seem to be spending most of their time adopting tools rather than building software.<p>What I quibble with is your solution. This is another layer on this cake of complexity that tries to hide the ugliness beneath rather than truly simplify. This sort of wrapping is rarely successful because eventually one of the underlying bits refuses to do its thing just as you’d hope and the house of cards comes tumbling down.<p>I don’t think the crappiness of the cloud and webdev “stacks”  can be rectified without a do over. I think it may need a rethink from the OS all the way up. Maybe right down to the hardware layer.<p>I don’t think what’s there now is salvageable if we are hoping for a true shift in productivity.