> Because this is MUCH better than sites loading megabytes worth of scripts to do nothing more than render text, have dozens of floating elements everywhere, au

> Because this is MUCH better than sites loading megabytes worth of scripts to do nothing more than render text, have dozens of floating elements everywhere, auto playing videos that follow you, "use our app" buttons, etc... False dilemma. Code can be concise and readable. > JS is the assembly of the web No. Assembly is supposed to have a virtually one-to-one correspondence with machine code. JavaScript is far from that. It is a higher-level language. > do you also criticize games written in assembly? I would indeed criticize someone writing a game in assembly if an alternative was available.