16 engineers on Hacker News describe using HTML first-hand: 2 endorse it, 0 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“used as much semantic HTML and modern CSS and can get extremely far”
endorse · personal · seanclayton · 2026-08-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it's pretty goofy, but then again, so is English. But I'm going to keep using it, because there isn't anything else.”
mixed · production · 9 yr · wmeredith · 2013-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've had to learn to use the newer html5 features, almost all of which were welcome.”
endorse · production · geuis · 2011-10-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I was young... I was the manager and the HTML coder, the recruiter and the cleaner”
neutral · production · evermike · 2025-09-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“make entire sites with flask, python, html+js+css, backed with SQLite db and it's amazing.”
neutral · production · cryptoz · 2023-10-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using HTML, CSS, and Javascript for more than 5 years”
neutral · production · 5 yr · pcthrowaway · 2021-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the only language of the 13+ I've used in production code”
neutral · production · wolfadex · 2020-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I write HTML, then run an offline script to create a static website (rss feed, tag indexes, extracts for home page).”
neutral · personal · 15 yr · jefftk · 2019-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“implement a UI in HTML/CSS using a JavaScript tool I wrote myself”
neutral · production · alistproducer2 · 2016-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My current employer though we switched new development to html years ago.”
neutral · production · tomjen3 · 2016-01-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use double quotes for HTML and single quotes for JS. that makes it easy to embed HTML snippets in Js code”
neutral · production · adzicg · 2015-07-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I was tinkering with building websites and learning HTML and that. I built a few sites”
neutral · personal · Killswitch · 2015-04-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had to develop a HTML5 mobile app around a MS SQL database”
neutral · production · sarciszewski · 2014-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Parameters are controlled via an HTML5 app.”
neutral · production · cvdfer · 2014-11-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Like you, I typically write HTML in HTML”
neutral · personal · qjz · 2011-10-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I started html when I was around 14, I learned how to outsource quickly”
neutral · personal · hahla · 2011-06-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?