The median mobile web page has ~4x as much JS on it vs. a decade ago. Meanwhile, the median CPU is barely 2x faster. JS-first web development was a planetary-scale mistake.

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   Alex Russell (slightlyoff@toot.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 01:37:14 JST Alex Russell

   A decade ago, a tribe of JS partisans took the web by the reins, forked HTML and JS syntax, and yeeted userland abstractions into the critical path because "a better user experience".

   This was premised on the idea that everyone's CPUs/networks would get faster the way their top-end phones did.

   They could not have been more wrong.

   JS-first web development has been a planetary-scale exercise in the rich making life harder for the less well-off.

   https://httparchive.org/reports/state-of-javascript#bytesJs

   https://infrequently.org/2022/12/performance-baseline-2023/