JavaScript isn’t the problem; the business model of Silicon Valley is. Web developers aren’t “terrible at their craft”; they excel at it. It just so happens that under surveillance capitalism their craft is to build sites that track and profile you. Needs systemic change to fix.https://twitter.com/twbtwb/status/1002421587667136512 …
(But yes, it would be more precise today to say “the business model of the Web” or “the business model of mainstream technology”. I lazily use “Silicon Valley” to refer to surveillance capitalism as that’s where it was created and is exported from.)