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> People doing frontend dev don't want to bother with slow compile time or 3 strings implementation. As someone doing both, my frontend JS/react pipeline has n
by maxsilver 4y ago
> People doing frontend dev don't want to bother with slow compile time or 3 strings implementation.
As someone doing both, my frontend JS/react pipeline has noticeably longer compile times (both to build locally, and for users rendering client-side) than my server-side one.
> There is a reason why JS was invented.
JS isn't here because it's "fast". JS is here because it shipped in browsers, and browsers were popular. JS got fast, after lots of people put a ton of effort into their JS implementations for almost two decades straight to make it so.
(See https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2012/12/04/arewefastyet-improvements/ https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2012/12/04/arewefastyet-... from ten years ago as just one of many, many examples)