I can see both sides of the coin here. I liked classic ASP because I could edit a file in production with Notepad and tell the user... "I'm not seeing that... press F5 and try again." :)
With that said, I love development goodies like intelli-sense, strong typing, compilation, and even WYSIWYG designers and the like.
I will add that modern JS development and tooling it a lot better than it used to be... even just 3 years ago.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
