Comment on How JavaScript Overuse Ruined the Web
balder1991@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I mean, this post makes no valid argument against JavaScript, there’s no benchmarks or anything aside from an opinion.
I don’t personally like webdev and don’t like to code in JavaScript, but there are good and bad web applications out there, just like any software.
A single page can send out hundreds or even thousands of API requests just to load, eating up CPU and RAM.
The author seems to know the real problem, so I don’t know why they’re blaming it on JavaScript.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 15 hours ago
Because only JS is able to do that. Everything else is just a dependency tree.
watty@lemm.ee 12 hours ago
That’s not necessarily special to JS. It’s special to client-side code. A mobile app writing in swift could do this. A cli tool written in any language could do this.
This isn’t an argument against JS, it’s an argument against misuse of client hardware.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 12 hours ago
edited my comment to include the excruciatingly obvious assumption.