I find "The long tale of two tribes" at the bottom of the page far more interesting than the score calculator itself. We should discuss this and not nitpick on

I find "The long tale of two tribes" at the bottom of the page far more interesting than the score calculator itself. We should discuss this and not nitpick on WebBS gaming. It would be better for discussion to have article at the beginning of the page and later on introduce the score calculator. I would not say that it is easy to pick one particular side. It is true however that web feels too bloated. It is funny how simple static page with everything embedded can be faster than whatever fancy web framework. Look how quick St4k [1] is. Computing on server may be fast and energy efficient. It also hides complexity. But then we end up in proprietary walled garden. There must be some middle ground. I am hopping that Sandstorm project [2] will bring democratization of the server space. Lately I think that our technology meets the ceiling. In the past we imagined that everyone would have their personal flying car or that we would have a space plane. Now we have subsonic jets and maybe electric self-driving cars behind the corner. We have a promise of reusable rockets with stages landing separately like some kind of elevator. Everything is smoke and mirrors. We will not have thin clients with low latency links to servers everywhere just like we will never have independent and fully distributed thick clients. We will fake it until we make it. There may be Netflix cache [3] near you to simulate that network is fast in both senses. [1] http://danlec.com/st4k# http://danlec.com/st4k# [2] https://sandstorm.io/ https://sandstorm.io/ [3] https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/delivery-options/ https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/delivery-options/ [EDIT] I worded it poorly. St4k was not meant to be an example of fully static page, but rather general trend. Yes, St4k is SPA, but after one request you have whole application. Next requests bring content only.