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I think reaching for JS is often a reflex because we want to avoid delving into building backends that aren't a simple REST API. If you stick to HTML and CSS yo

I think reaching for JS is often a reflex because we want to avoid delving into building backends that aren't a simple REST API. If you stick to HTML and CSS you need to start building pages and managing state server-side, which a lot of people don't really want to do. Even cheap, old smartphones support JS. You can have fast, efficient JS.

mtrower 6y ago
> You can have fast, efficient JS. You know... this is true. I know this is true, because we had JS 20+ years ago on Pentium processors. It's possible to write JS that doesn't require multiple cores on a 2019 Ryzen... But there are also the other sort of sites. You know the ones. Take a stab at which is more prevalent, and receives the majority of ire =[