Comment by sodapopcan

Oh lordy, I'll bite.

I was responding to your blanket claim that server-side is misguided in general.

I have no idea what you consider complex, but most people pushing toward server side UI are not advocating that it's a one-stop solution, just that it simplifies a large majority of situations that many of us are in which is building CRUD apps. You can even get pretty complex, like say an email client though at that point we're in a grey area where you could kind of go either way. If we're talking something like building PhotoShop in-browser or even a calendar or gantt chart (which I have worked on) then, no, I would not personally advocate server side and instead use a good client-side view library.

The Elixir/Erlang comment was that it makes server-side even easier as you can hop into running production systems and debug them.