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Re:I had no idea that one company basically owns every font by wredue on Sunday August 27, 2023 @12:27PM (#37284181)
That’s not cookie pop ups. That’s functional programming strategies poisoning the brains of developers causing them to believe that rewriting their page on every request is preferable because otherwise they have to think about “70,000 page states”.

They’re trading user experience for a mythical silver bullet of programming that some dude on medium told them was the holy grail and proved it using simple, horribly contrived anecdotes.

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Re:I had no idea that one company basically owns every font by poorlyknit on Sunday August 27, 2023 @12:33PM (#37284237)
> rewriting their page on every request

That's not how virtual DOM works.

EDIT: Also the concept of "virtual DOM" is way older than shitty websites themselves (was applied to native GUI stuff before JS was even a thing). What you're seeing is just a shitty website.

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Re:I had no idea that one company basically owns every font by wredue on Monday August 28, 2023 @09:56AM (#37294026)
Yeah. It’s not like functional programming is known for being slow, and every page adopting these ridiculous strategies has universally gotten worse and slower. Oh wait.
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Re:I had no idea that one company basically owns every font by gedy on Sunday August 27, 2023 @12:33PM (#37284239)
That page does not use React afaict, if that is what you are getting at.
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