About enshitification of web dev.

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    1 month ago

    An fuck off with these dumbass, utterly vacuous Anti JavaScript rants.

    I’m getting so sick of people being like “I keep getting hurt by bullets, clearly it’s the steel industry that’s the problem”.

    Your issue isn’t with JavaScript it’s with advertising and data tracking and profit driven product managers and the things that force developers to focus on churning out bad UXs.

    I can build an insanely fast and performant blog with Gatsby or Next.js and have the full power of React to build a modern pleasant components hierarchy and also have it be entirely statically rendered and load instantly.

    And guess what, unlike the author apparently, I don’t find it a mystery. I understand every aspect of the stack I’m using and why each part is doing what . And unlike the author’s tech stack, I don’t need a constantly running server just to render my client’s application and provide basic interactivity on their $500 phone with a GPU more powerful than any that existed from 10 years ago.

    This article literally says absolutely nothing substantive. It just rants about how websites are less performant and react is complicated and ignore the reality that if every data tracking script happened backend instead, there would still be performance issues because they are there for the sole reason that those websites do not care to pay to fix them. Full stop. They could fix those performance issues now, while still including JavaScript and data tracking, but they don’t because they don’t care and never would.