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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish35•3 months agoJavaScript was a mistake. And it went downhill from there.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish30•3 months agoEh, scriptable content was probably fine. Techbros going ‘holy shit, we should make EVERYTHING a website!’ was the curse that doomed us.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish29•3 months agoPushing for bloated web apps instead of having optimized and perfectly functional websites was what killed it for me.
minus-squareTimeSquirrellinkfedilink30•edit-23 months agoIt was fine when it was contained to an actual web site instead of infecting desktop software too. To me, using JS for that purpose feels like using PHP to write a 3D video game.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish22•3 months ago using PHP to write a 3D video game. Somewhere, someone just had a really bad idea.
minus-squarechiisanalinkfedilinkEnglish16•3 months agoIt’s a general language (though primarily adopted by web as backend engine), so you can basically expect people already have had this idea.
JavaScript was a mistake.
And it went downhill from there.
Eh, scriptable content was probably fine.
Techbros going ‘holy shit, we should make EVERYTHING a website!’ was the curse that doomed us.
Pushing for bloated web apps instead of having optimized and perfectly functional websites was what killed it for me.
It was fine when it was contained to an actual web site instead of infecting desktop software too. To me, using JS for that purpose feels like using PHP to write a 3D video game.
Somewhere, someone just had a really bad idea.
It’s a general language (though primarily adopted by web as backend engine), so you can basically expect people already have had this idea.