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Web development in 2014 consists of using four dozen CSS files, two hundred JavaScript files, and upwards of 750 HTTP requests to an API in order to display a s
by ubernostrum 12y ago
Web development in 2014 consists of using four dozen CSS files, two hundred JavaScript files, and upwards of 750 HTTP requests to an API in order to display a single blog post. It is unthinkable to impose any sort of discipline on the use of resources by developers, even at companies which theoretically have an incentive to be efficient.
As a result, those companies have banded together to produce a bloated, multiplexed blob-fish of a protocol which they have vomited into the standards body for fast approval, over the objections of the people who will actually have to implement it.