• Balder@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    I mean, this post makes no valid argument against JavaScript, there’s no benchmarks or anything aside from an opinion.

    I don’t personally like webdev and don’t like to code in JavaScript, but there are good and bad web applications out there, just like any software.

    A single page can send out hundreds or even thousands of API requests just to load, eating up CPU and RAM.

    The author seems to know the real problem, so I don’t know why they’re blaming it on JavaScript.

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      12 hours ago

      Because only JS is able to do that in a web browser. Everything else is just a dependency tree.

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        12 hours ago

        That’s not necessarily special to JS. It’s special to client-side code. A mobile app writing in swift could do this. A cli tool written in any language could do this.

        This isn’t an argument against JS, it’s an argument against misuse of client resources.