I have no issue with JavaScript itself. I have issues with what web developers do with it: - Hideous wastefulness of resources, causing constant unnecessary re

I have no issue with JavaScript itself. I have issues with what web developers do with it: - Hideous wastefulness of resources, causing constant unnecessary repaints, enormous RAM usage, etc - “Experiencejacking”: things like scroll hijacking, back button hijacking, etc - All the privacy invasions that JS enables These wouldn’t be issues if sites suffering from them were the minority, but they’re not. Most sites have mountains of poorly optimized JavaScript that gives zero thought to performance or resource consumption. Once it works, it’s shipped. The fact is that front end web dev culture as a whole places very little value in things like performance, battery life, resources, and ultimately, respect of the end user’s desires, and that’s a huge problem. As long as the whizz-bang shiny flashy checkboxes are checked, it’s all good.