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Re:The Cost of JavaScript in 2019 by chrisweekly on Sunday June 30, 2019 @01:52PM (#20319445)
Performance _is_ a feature. In fact it's the most important feature.
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Re:The Cost of JavaScript in 2019 by hedora on Sunday June 30, 2019 @07:12PM (#20321184)
Well, correctness / security are probably more important than performance.

(Spoiler alert: If your system is well-enough implemented to be correct, it is well on the way to being secure and performant too)

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Re:The Cost of JavaScript in 2019 by nameiscubanpete on Monday July 01, 2019 @02:24AM (#20322900)
It's better that "Hello, world" take 5 seconds to print than 1 second to crash and print nothing.
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