>create viable sofware with just a few clicks of the mouse... I definitely feel things have gotten way more complicated than they should be by now.
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>Ruby on Rails is one way to put apps together extremely quickly. It provides a scaffold to which you can add css and extra functionality to get a data app up and running with a browser frontend very quickly. However, it does exhibit the usual behavior of "making the easy easier".

I might have to take a look into that. Right now, I'm playing around with IronPython. Doesn't quite fit the "simplicity factor" we should be at, but it is interesting.