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JavaScript Broke the Web

JavaScript Broke the Web

Jun 22, 20251 min read

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This showed up in my Mastodon feed yesterday…

“Once upon a time, we had a fast, stable, resilient web. But we replaced it with a JavaScript cargo cult.”

https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/javascript-broke-the-web-and-called-it-progress/

“Today, we optimise for “DX” – developer experience. Not user experience. Not performance. Not outcomes.”

Time to get back to the Web as it was Meant to Be™.

—2p

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