You could start with an HTML page and vanilla JS. Use Bootstrap, Tailwind, whatever with a <link> tag. But then instead of a build system, you're wrestling with home-grown infra if it's not cloud.
The need for a build system should become apparent, but only once you're comfortable with the idea.
Without make, you were running `cc` or `gcc`. Even your previous languages may have had a big "Play" button in the IDE. Usually even those invocations are--behind the scenes--basically one super long command.
Classic ASP is another option. It's on Windows, IIS is free, and Azure (Microsoft cloud) supports it.
By the way, it appears Delphi is alive and well via Embarcadero [1].
If you pick Delphi and a web framework, you can put it in a Docker container and run it in the cloud. The "build" mechanism in that case is whatever you need from the container image's OS to bootstrap Delphi runtime, but that's well worth learning.
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You could start with an HTML page and vanilla JS. Use Bootstrap, Tailwind, whatever with a <link> tag. But then instead of a build system, you're wrestling with home-grown infra if it's not cloud.
The need for a build system should become apparent, but only once you're comfortable with the idea.
Without make, you were running `cc` or `gcc`. Even your previous languages may have had a big "Play" button in the IDE. Usually even those invocations are--behind the scenes--basically one super long command.
Classic ASP is another option. It's on Windows, IIS is free, and Azure (Microsoft cloud) supports it.
By the way, it appears Delphi is alive and well via Embarcadero [1].
If you pick Delphi and a web framework, you can put it in a Docker container and run it in the cloud. The "build" mechanism in that case is whatever you need from the container image's OS to bootstrap Delphi runtime, but that's well worth learning.
[1] https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi