"It seems the best way to improve web development would be to completely remove the need for CSS." I think the author of this comment means "The best way to make my life as a JavaScript developer easier is to remove any language I don't understand"https://medium.com/@normanklein/css-houdini-sounds-like-the-ultimate-bad-idea-af5ac9c2d45c …
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Replying to @brucel
Well, if JS devs collapse the mobile web ecosystem like they appear poised to do, they won't have to deal with CSS at all!
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Replying to @slightlylate
I know you look at more of this than I do, and presumably have access to internal stats: do you really see a collapse of mobile web ecosystem as imminent/ likely?
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Replying to @brucel @slightlylate
Even the crappiest devices are still subject to acceleration in hardware power over time. Moreso than developers and large JS codebases, at least.
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Replying to @gavindoughtie @brucel
1.) Not devices already sold, and lifecycle is lengthening in most markets 2.) Prices are falling at the bottom rather than power going up 3.) Saturation will cause what you say to take hold, but single-core perf still bad and main-thread JS is growing
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Replying to @slightlylate @brucel
Seems like it’s in the nature of platform ecosystems to bloat and encourage the development of apps that don’t play well on older devices. True of desktop OS as well.
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Human beings just don’t scale that well compared to chip fab, etc.
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Saying the problem is “all that JavaScript” kind of ignores the pressures that made folks like us write it in the first place.
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I'm telling you what I see in traces and data, not ignoring causes
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Replying to @slightlylate @brucel
Maybe like geocentric orbital mechanics filled with epicycles it’s time for new things. Copernican voice/gesture/XR instead of a scene graph UI. Or a new standard!
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