Jonathan Blow

The public version of the Web started taking off in 1995, around the time Netscape Navigator was released. Here's the World Supercomputer List for 1995: https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/1995/06/ … A Coffee Lake GPU in a random laptop is almost double the performance of the top of that list.

So what we are observing is, since the Web started, it has become so much slower that a supercomputer would no longer be able to run it? Does that make sense to anyone?https://twitter.com/Suhail/status/1387063023521595394 …

But the tides are already turning and more and more web developers are starting to understand that the whole Node thing was a big mistake. Look out for Elixir based sites pushing server rendered content over websockets.

Server-side rendering is an *absurd* solution that depends on a severe misunderstanding of the problem in order to seem to make any sense at all.

So SSR is basically what almost all servers do today, but they have a tendency to push a lot of logic over to the client - making the browser do a gazillion asynchronous function calls on the server.