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Re:Moving from TypeScript to Rust / WebAssembly by heavyset_go on Thursday July 09, 2020 @05:19AM (#23778360)
> Remove that and the web will be blazing fast.

With sufficient ad blocking and JS white listing, I can attest to this.

After removing ads and analytics, sites that rely on JavaScript to render significant amounts of content are the slowest.

Re:Moving from TypeScript to Rust / WebAssembly by XCSme on Thursday July 09, 2020 @10:35AM (#23780726)
If you have A LOT of content (eg. a table with 10000 rows containing rich data) it will be faster to use a JS virtualized list than to just have all those 100k+ DOM elements computed at once.