A big part of the problem is that the web is full of parasitic mechanics. Javascript is shit, both the language itself and most of the code written in it, but

A big part of the problem is that the web is full of parasitic mechanics. Javascript is shit, both the language itself and most of the code written in it, but the person who suffers from shitty Javascript is... you. It runs on your computer--that's the parasitic part--and not that of the entity serving it. So they don't care. Until ad dollars stop coming in, it doesn't matter. Businesses generally think they can scale up with shitty code and inexperienced engineers and "do quality" later. Can they? Well, enough of them can that billion-dollar companies exist. I'm very skeptical that capitalism's signals indicate anything about true value (moral, creative, or otherwise) but the fact is that the "start cheap 'n' shitty" approach works, and it has worked for a long time. (Low quality software has been an issue for my entire adult life, and by HN standards I'm an elder dragon legend.) So long as it keeps working, it won't die. Markets don't punish what is bad; markets punish what is unfit by the definition set by the market. What's funny to me today is that people tend to underestimate how fast computers are--or can be. Adding a million numbers? You can do that in a fraction of a second. People are so used to the crapware that capitalism produces that we've accepted these ridiculous delays, not for any good reason.