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Re:Programs are dead, and JavaScript has killed them by LtWorf on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @11:06AM (#33970712)
> Most of the modern web will be broken on older devices.

And the super heavy js websites will work?

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Re:Programs are dead, and JavaScript has killed them by dmitriid on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @05:07PM (#33976688)
Not necessarily.

How old and how backward compatible are you thinking?

- Symbol is 2014-2015

- Map is 2014-2015

- Weak* data structures and their methods span 2014-2021

- WebGL 2.0 is 2017-2021

- Custom Elements are 2017-2021

- Chrome-only non-standards (hardware APIs and a bunch of others) are pumped out at a rate of up to 400 per year

- WebAssembly MVP is 2017-2018

And so on. That's off the top of my head. None of them are backwards compatible. Some of them cannot be polyfilled.

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