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Sounds like a challenge! Time to write JavaScript that's even more questionable.

userbinator 6y ago
That's the first thing that I thought of too --- if browsers get faster, sites that are already full of terribly inefficient and unnecessary JS will just get worse to compensate. Somewhat like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law but at a different level of abstraction.
- wffurr 6y ago
  More like Jevons Paradox.
manquer 6y ago
I see it differently. It allows even lesser skilled folks to build a site or app. If browsers performed like in 2010[1],we wouldnt have a lot of apps online. I am not talking about unicorn SaaS apps. I am talking about the local county or state government making things available online. The small business putting an app together beyond a basic website. It may not seem much to you but there is real and massive impact in developing economies. digitalization is single biggest tool against corruption. The education system in such places do not on average produce great comp sci engineers . the best graduates go to a big company. the rest have a job and build shitty but useful products. All this is not possible without browsers which can take the hit. [1] 2010-2020 time frame specifically because CPU has broadly stagnated in the last 10y however we have been able to build a lot more complex apps because of browser innovations
- account42 6y ago
  > It allows even lesser skilled folks to build a site It does not take more skill to build a site without JS, only more restraint > If browsers performed like in 2010[1],we wouldnt have a lot of apps online. I am not talking about unicorn SaaS apps. I am talking about the local county or state government making things available online. The small business putting an app together beyond a basic website. Less "apps" and more "basic" websites is exactly what should be encouraged.

That's the first thing that I thought of too --- if browsers get faster, sites that are already full of terribly inefficient and unnecessary JS will just get worse to compensate. Somewhat like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law but at a different level of abstraction.

wffurr 6y ago
More like Jevons Paradox.

manquer 6y ago

I see it differently. It allows even lesser skilled folks to build a site or app. If browsers performed like in 2010[1],we wouldnt have a lot of apps online. I am not talking about unicorn SaaS apps. I am talking about the local county or state government making things available online. The small business putting an app together beyond a basic website. It may not seem much to you but there is real and massive impact in developing economies. digitalization is single biggest tool against corruption. The education system in such places do not on average produce great comp sci engineers . the best graduates go to a big company. the rest have a job and build shitty but useful products. All this is not possible without browsers which can take the hit. [1] 2010-2020 time frame specifically because CPU has broadly stagnated in the last 10y however we have been able to build a lot more complex apps because of browser innovations

account42 6y ago
> It allows even lesser skilled folks to build a site It does not take more skill to build a site without JS, only more restraint > If browsers performed like in 2010[1],we wouldnt have a lot of apps online. I am not talking about unicorn SaaS apps. I am talking about the local county or state government making things available online. The small business putting an app together beyond a basic website. Less "apps" and more "basic" websites is exactly what should be encouraged.