There's never been a better time to build websites
It&#x27;s definitely a great time to build websites, but saying they _NEVER_ have been easier to make... I&#x27;m not 100% sure about that.<p>Yes, tailwind might make css a lot easier, and github copilot might make coding a lot faster... but is this really easier than in the early 90ies, when you could just type &lt;html&gt; into notepad and make a website that didn&#x27;t require any CSS or images or JS or even more than just the most basic html tags?<p>When it comes to reading a blog or article or consuming any other form of textual information on the internet - I find myself increasingly enamored with &quot;Reader View&quot; in Firefox, which basically ditches all the crap, and displays the web-page in a default-style, as if it was just the most basic html - just like that we did write in 90ies.<p>Of course this doesn&#x27;t hold true for any webApps that do more than just present textual information (and the occasional image) - but why do project like ViewPure exist? There seems to be at least some demand for getting rid of all the clutter.<p>Is tailwind really easier to work with something like - let&#x27;s say - pico.css? Of course if you want to do super-elaborate layouts, then probably yes - but if you embraced a more minimalist approach?<p>Isn&#x27;t Hacker News itself a really great example of a website that successfully uses only very basic html with very, very little styling and fancy extra features?