Ask HN: How to deal with the loss of magic as a student?

Re:Ask HN: How to deal with the loss of magic as a student? by austin-cheney on Saturday March 04, 2023 @07:23AM (#35020310)

I am there right now. I enjoy building things. Recently I wrote a paper about loading a page in a browser that displays an OS GUI with full state restoration as fast as 80ms. The magic, for me, is only in personal projects and that magic is fading into nothing.

In the real world most software, at least in JavaScript, is sloppy complex shit written by people looking for easy. Web technologies have been around for about 30 years (JavaScript is 27 years old) and yet the job is still about which super monster unnecessary framework to use to put text on screen. The APIs of these frameworks are more complex than the things they seek to replace. That is so depressing.

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Re:Ask HN: How to deal with the loss of magic as a student? by tempor-schule on Saturday March 04, 2023 @07:34AM (#35020359)

Thanks for your answer, it is reassuring in a weird way to see that it is a more common struggle than I thought.

>Recently I wrote a paper about loading a page in a browser that displays an OS GUI with full state restoration as fast as 80ms.

Btw about this, I am reading it and it sounds amazing [0].

[0] - https://github.com/prettydiff/wisdom/blob/master/performance...

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