I find web development less enjoyable than 5 or 10 years ago because of the increasing size and complexity of the stack.
Part of this is that stacks that start off all light and fresh "we're not Struts!" before long acquire a few too many "must-have" features until, Lo! they are Struts.
Then it's time to drop that framework and find something more fresh, light, and lean, and enjoy it while it lasts.
The past weekend (during a RHoK event) I was introduced to TipFy by a young dude who's far faster than me in grokking new tools. It was easy, fresh and led to a fun weekend of web development.
Tipfy runs on the Google App Engine Python stack. It's a bit rough on the edges, but that's part of the fun.
Part of this is that stacks that start off all light and fresh "we're not Struts!" before long acquire a few too many "must-have" features until, Lo! they are Struts.
Then it's time to drop that framework and find something more fresh, light, and lean, and enjoy it while it lasts.