Google Domains, despite its recent redesign, is actually built with Google Web Toolkit It loads megabytes of JS bundle, which is loaded by `eval`, which is compiled from Java!! Omg my eyes If you wondered why the first page load of Google Domains is so sluggish, this is why
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Replying to @wongmjane
This seems to be a trend with Google products, eg. Gmail. Putting a pretty skin on top of a metric fuckton of legacy frontend code.
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Replying to @sebmck @wongmjane
At Facebook we just keep the same legacy looking UI on top of the legacy frontend code
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