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Re:ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your Re... by moffkalast on Sunday March 29, 2026 @06:14PM (#47567964)
Yeah just had this earlier today, I had to write my response in vscode and paste it in, there were literal seconds of lag for typing each character. Typical bloated React.
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Re:ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your Re... by scq on Sunday March 29, 2026 @06:31PM (#47568110)
Just because a web application uses React and is slow, it does not follow that it is slow because of React.

It's perfectly possible to write fast or slow web applications in React, same as any other framework.

Linear is one of the snappiest web applications I've ever used, and it is written in React.

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Re:ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your Re... by brigandish on Sunday March 29, 2026 @07:20PM (#47568491)
Does not, in the seeming absence of other snappy examples and the overwhelming evidence of many, many slow React apps, the exception prove the rule?
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Re:ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your Re... by scq on Sunday March 29, 2026 @07:39PM (#47568647)
There are plenty of snappy examples. Off the top of my head: Discord, Netflix, Signal Desktop, WhatsApp Web.
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Re:ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your Re... by TeMPOraL on Monday March 30, 2026 @07:37AM (#47572973)
Discord, maybe. But Netflix and WhatsApp Web? Those are bloated cows, just less broken than average.
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Re:ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your Re... by genthree on Monday March 30, 2026 @08:43AM (#47573561)
Those are all really poorly-performing.
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Re:ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your Re... by moffkalast on Monday March 30, 2026 @05:21AM (#47572175)
Sure it's possible but those are a handful of exceptions against the norm, when the general approach so easily guides you towards bloat upon bloat that you have to be an expert to actively avoid going down that route.
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