In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds have not improved

Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by j-krieger on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @06:51PM (#24055356)

Any modern JS Framework gets compiled to vanilla JS. That‘s exactly the problem: Because Browsers don‘t implement ES6+ Syntax natively, it has to get compiled to complicated, long winded ES5 or filled by heavy polyfills. If browsers were all spec compliant, code bundles would be way smaller.

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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by azangru on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @07:21PM (#24055563)

> Because Browsers don‘t implement ES6+ Syntax natively

Erm what? What browsers are you talking about now?

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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by IggleSniggle on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @08:39PM (#24056042)

This almost certainly means Internet Explorer, if they’re only referring to ES6. But honestly I love all the feature since then. It’s actually difficult for me to imagine not using TypeScript these days, let alone not having access to asynchronous/await or async iterables, plus all the tiny little syntax improvements it’s easy to take for granted like Array.includes()

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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by duckmysick on Thursday August 06, 2020 @05:58AM (#24069554)

Old Android browsers, UC Browser.

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