Jonathan Blow

Said startup is just an extreme example. But if you want me to use your Web and frustrate me day with how slow it is, how janky it feels, and how frequently it completely fails, then wanting me not to say something about it is kind of ... absurdly gaslighty?

I'm not even sure what bit you're mad about, all of the web? You're plenty sharp enough to understand all of the diversity of quality of software is as present on the web as it is in all other kinds of software.

Yes. The entire thing sucks and is stupid.

I'd take a thousand silly startup ideas for the chance we land on one Wikipedia. Everyone just does what they can. Mechanical sympathy isn't the only way.

Okay, but ... it doesn't actually work. The theory is that the way these things are programmed is a trade-off, you give up efficiency, you get productivity and reliability etc. But productivity and reliability are both extremely low. And the amount of efficiency traded off was

tremendously higher than claimed. At some point, isn't someone supposed to notice this and question wtf is going on?

The same spread of productivity and reliability exists in web programming as in all others. We gained a boatload of accessibility on the way though. Fairly sure that most of programming is frequently reflective and this isn't news, there's no prize for being annoyed about it.

I find your first assertion here very difficult to agree with if I just look at the numbers.