I'm bothered by a lot of contemporary web development. Many things are implemented using far too much heavy JS code, and user experience suffers. I also think a

I'm bothered by a lot of contemporary web development. Many things are implemented using far too much heavy JS code, and user experience suffers. I also think a lot of people drastically underestimate how much we get out of modern tools. In a followup tweet[1] and in this thread, antirez says that we haven't improved interaction in 20 years. Let's consider gmail, which is close enough to 20 years old. But at the time, it was an example of a very rare and complex app build on top of ajax. I don't personally quite remember this, but it apparently didn't have rich text editing for a year after it was released. Ask yourself: how long would a competent front-end developer need to make a decent 2004 gmail clone using modern front-end tools? The ideal would be to build more lightweight websites, but exploit modern tools where they pay for themselves. While we're at it, we can write fast software without premature optimization. [1] (https://twitter.com/antirez/status/1378274076859502593 https://twitter.com/antirez/status/1378274076859502593) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail_interface#cite_ref-RichText_26-0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail_interface#cite_ref-RichT...