How JavaScript Overuse Ruined the Web
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I constantly have to switch back and forth between turning javascript on and off to read articles. Those endless popups begging for my email address and google amp are also ruining the experience.
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Nothing like having a check box suddenly move because an ad finally resolved and I end up clicking on the damn ad instead
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A page could load thousands of images and thousands of tiny CSS files.
None of that is JS, all of that is loads of extra requests.Never mind WASM. It's a portable compiled binary that runs on the browser. Code that in c#, rust, python, whatever.
So no, JS is not the only way to poorly implement API requests.Besides, http/2 has connection reuse. If the IP and the TLS cert authority is the same, additional API/file etc requests will happen over the established TLS connection, reducing the overhead of establishing a secure connection.
Your dislike is of badly made websites and the prevalence of the browser being a common execution framework, and is wrongly directed at JS.
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And it's always the sites that you want to have apps that don't. For example I use twitch daily, there are days where I don't even open up a web browser aside from just to watch twitch.
My current work around is I have an electron app that I've coded which is essentially for now just a wrapper of the twitch websites follow page and built in user script functionality to have frankenzface. But the fact that twitch discontinued their native app is obnoxious to me.
Every other video website under the moon has an app, but for some reason twitch can't manage to do this
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Apparently, it isn’t too hard to craft an electron out of third party JS
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It's not a bug, it's a feature!
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Seems like you read the first two sentences of my post and stopped there, so you completely missed the point.
It's not JS that is the problem. It's an issue of client resource use. That would be true no matter what language is being used.
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Not necessarily. Programmers are heavily influenced by the language they use. There's a reason there's so many JS frameworks.
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