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A lot of people think the earth is flat and landing on the moon is fake. Call me a misanthropist, but I generally have little faith in 'a lot of people' ;-) Th
by oneplane 9y ago
A lot of people think the earth is flat and landing on the moon is fake. Call me a misanthropist, but I generally have little faith in 'a lot of people' ;-)
The thing about efficient language wasn't 100% targeted at web technologies alone, but at the general waste of computing resources for something as trivial as a mail client. Just because we have SSDs, gigabytes of RAM and CPUs that do a whole lot of cycles doesn't mean wasting a good portion of it is a good idea.
- freshhawk 9y agoI wasn't saying it was good because it was popular, not making an argument from popularity, since I also think most people are stupid. I was saying that's the right trade-off to choose in a lot of common use cases. Because most UI toolkits are pretty limiting, and the web toolkit can be amazingly powerful and productive. Of course, if you follow the latest fads in the awful js community they are a nightmare, but lets not pretend that's the only way to use the platform when it makes sense to pay the efficiency cost.