It depends!
This is the answer. It was the answer before you asked, and it will still be the answer after the next framework ships. Everything else is just working out what it depends on.
Verified against every stack since 1981
- 1984
- Should this go on one floppy or two? — It depends.
- 1996
- Client-server or fat client? — It depends.
- 2004
- Do we really need a stored procedure for that? — It depends.
- 2011
- Should we move it all to the cloud? — It depends.
- 2016
- Microservices, or have we lost the plot? — It depends.
- 2026
- Can the AI just write it? — It depends.