We have to distinguish websites from web applications. Websites have no reason to use JavaScript. They should be a collection of documents, possibly generate d

We have to distinguish websites from web applications. Websites have no reason to use JavaScript. They should be a collection of documents, possibly generate dynamically on the server side, but to the user HTML+CSS that can be viewed in a browser, downloaded with curl, viewed as source code, etc. Web applications have no reason to exist. Basically we are turning the browser into a JVM, a way to run code portably. But this have nothing to do with the web! It's just bytecode loaded from a remote server. What Figma, or GMail, or Google Docs has to do with a website? Nothing. These things shouldn't be implemented in a browser, it's not the right place. These problem should have been solved at the operating system level, but it was too difficult for Microsoft to agree with Apple and the open source world on a portable operating system interface to made possible universal binaries among platforms, with maybe a bytecode, maybe a way to load code from an URL. No they couldn't agree, so they took the only really open standard, the web, and bloated it, basically making it an operating system (well, Google even made it really one!), what's the point? That now most people run Windows or macOS with on top a browser (probably Chrome) into which they run 95% of the software that they use. Does this make sense? To me is a huge inefficiency, that only makes things slower, slower than they were in the 90s to me (even if we have order of magnitude more powerful hardware using the GMail web interface feels slower than what it was using Outlook on Windows 98).