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A lot of people on HN are very against JavaScript and I often get the feeling they’re academics or don’t work in the part of IT with web software. The reality i
by davedx 3y ago
A lot of people on HN are very against JavaScript and I often get the feeling they’re academics or don’t work in the part of IT with web software. The reality is huge swathes of the web benefit from it whether people like it or not, this project is just one example.
- mrtksn 3y agoAs I'm the subject here, no I'm not an academic but used to work with Web technologies. Quit working with web technologies at the time when a new JS framework was hitting the home page with a promise to make everything better. I quit because I lost my productivity because I got carried away with all this JS stuff and find myself in infinite complexity eating away my time and energy for less than marginal gains on the final product. It was extremely cool but utterly useless. Now that I'm at the receiving end of the Web based products, i assure you the experience is horrific. I don't even use search engines as much since the AI went mainstream and can't be happier. Good riddance. Of course I do enjoy things made with the advanced Web technologies like Wasm, Figma for example. I'm every now and then impressed by some web app that does something I thought not possible before. However I'm still disgusted by documents that are some images and text loading tons of stuff that don't do anything beyond degrading my experience by slowing down the response time or act weird when interacting.
- pvg 3y agoAs I'm the subject here That's not the subject of Show HN's, though, which is a great reason not to post generic fighting comments in people's Show HN's.