3 billion people are in a bandwith, memory and CPU-constrained environment.
99% of websites can be written with or a minimum of javascript or not at all without losing any meaningful functionality.
But the website is down right not.
Everything is resource constrained environment.
With exposure to larger traffic hitting various services comes experience to not do things like that. Somebody had to keep the world running and some of us do care for proper engineering approaches.
Re:Show HN: Whosfiring
by codedokode on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @09:09AM
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I have a feeling that with Chrome any environment gets memory-constrained pretty fast. I have 3 (three) gigabytes of RAM (that can hold over 3 billion bytes inside) available to OS, is that not enough?
You're making a conscious decision based on the trade-offs at hand and saying that every website should double down on server side rendering to cater to your intolerance of how modern web browsing works. That's just not feasible.