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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.
Article is correct but kind of low effort. Web slow from too much JS and self serving framework vendors, got it.
Most of the web now is like that article.
AI has a role in turning pages and pages of text into one sentence.
It took me 3 hours to think and write that article. Maybe you wouldn’t call it AI generated if it was actually AI generated.
I appreciate you taking time out to write that. I enjoyed reading it, I think what the parent comment was trying to offer as criticism is that it ended sort of abruptly. I was hoping for a couple more paragraphs on either examples of modern sites or platforms that don’t overly rely on js or a way for end users to use these sites loading only the bare minimum js.
I could just google that information but I was enjoying your point of view. Anyway that’s just my 2 cents
Thanks! You’re right, I should have given some examples like reddit.com is too slow on low end hardware, and how amazon.com loads faster than aliexpress.com for not relying too much on JavaScript. But I thought anyone could ‘sense’ which website has more javascript, but I was wrong.
AI has a role in turning pages and pages of text into one sentence.
Right now it’s generally used the other way round.
Much like conservatives think someone who talks a lot with conviction is right.
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Only if what they’re saying is bigoted or a scam.
And desktop “apps”
Half of them are just fancy electron javascript websites
And it’s always the sites that you want to have apps that don’t. For example I use twitch daily, there are days where I don’t even open up a web browser aside from just to watch twitch.
My current work around is I have an electron app that I’ve coded which is essentially for now just a wrapper of the twitch websites follow page and built in user script functionality to have frankenzface. But the fact that twitch discontinued their native app is obnoxious to me.
Every other video website under the moon has an app, but for some reason twitch can’t manage to do this
Apparently, it isn’t too hard to craft an electron out of third party JS
NoScript ftw
Great now nothing works 🫠
You’re welcome.
Give a hoot! Read a book!
Has saved my life. I find myself disabling it for an entire tab several times per day to do things like make a purchase or log in, but I’d still rather that than not have it on the rest of the sites.
Yeah even if you do that you can at least see the huge list of crazy scripts any given site is running. News sites are just amazing how they throw the kitchen sink at any visitors.
I constantly have to switch back and forth between turning javascript on and off to read articles. Those endless popups begging for my email address and google amp are also ruining the experience.
I found htmx the other day looks like a good fix for most of the js bullshit
I got bad news for you… htmx is written in JavaScript.
Yeah but I’d rather 1 piece of js instead of 6000
Yeah I was being a little sarcastic. I agree that using a single lightweight framework is ideal.
Runtime js for rendering your page is still bad for performance of course. Best to use static html where possible.
