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   Alex Russell (slightlyoff@toot.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 02:34:32 JST Alex Russell

   It's 2024, the web platform now includes a full component system, CSS we only dreamed of 10 years ago, deferred module loading is now a platform feature, and a fuller JS standard library than it ever...even in Safari!

   And yet.

   Today I was told unironically that 300K of JS was a hard target to hit for first load of a simple-ish experience.

   I am verklempt.

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     Alex Russell (slightlyoff@toot.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 02:34:51 JST Alex Russell

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     For the avoidance of doubt, that was 300K *COMPRESSED*, so something like 1.5MB of JS source.

     The worst thing the Reactors ever did was to convince people that their own dreams of infinite network and CPU abundance into the future were real, when in fact they were just playing themselves.