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That web application delivery is "fucking amazing" doesn't mean javascript is. Javascript very much is not.
What javascript is, is the only complete option until wasm is way more fleshed out than it currently is.
> Things that used to come with 100MB+ installers? Those are web apps now. They serve you 200kb
With an entire browser and server farm to do that.
> and load in less than a few seconds.
Instead of instantaneously.
> That spreadsheet app? Just a sheets.google.com away. Loads in seconds - using JS with a tiny payload.
10% the functionality, 20% the performance, at twice the heft. Amazing.
> Music player? It's a website now. JS.
Your music library? Doesn't exist now.
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That web application delivery is "fucking amazing" doesn't mean javascript is. Javascript very much is not.
What javascript is, is the only complete option until wasm is way more fleshed out than it currently is.
> Things that used to come with 100MB+ installers? Those are web apps now. They serve you 200kb
With an entire browser and server farm to do that.
> and load in less than a few seconds.
Instead of instantaneously.
> That spreadsheet app? Just a sheets.google.com away. Loads in seconds - using JS with a tiny payload.
10% the functionality, 20% the performance, at twice the heft. Amazing.
> Music player? It's a website now. JS.
Your music library? Doesn't exist now.