Reactors debating performance have the energy of boomer "car guys" that want to tell a working mechanic, in 2024, about how much better carburetors were.
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Reactors debating performance have the energy of boomer "car guys" that want to tell a working mechanic, in 2024, about how much better carburetors were.
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@slightlyoff Oh no you even have a pejorative name for people who have chosen a particular technology. It is fascinating to watch just how political someone can make something if they really lean into all the worst habits of politics.
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@slightlyoff diffing DOM yourself is closer to the metal obvs
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So you're a Carb guy, I take it?
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@nickchomey @slightlyoff Doubles down with the same us vs them political mentality over, of all things, open source software frameworks.
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@escarpment @nickchomey Here's some context:
The Market for Lemons - Infrequently Noted
New web services are being built to a self-defeatingly low UX and performance standard, and existing experiences are now pervasively re-developed on unspeakably slow, JS-taxed stacks. At a business level, this is a disaster, raising the question: why are new teams buying into stacks that have failed so often before?
Infrequently Noted (infrequently.org)
Platform Strategy and Its Discontents - Infrequently Noted
Alex Russell on browsers, standards, and the process of progress.
Infrequently Noted (infrequently.org)
