This thread is dead-on, but I'll add one more bit of context: when I (not speaking for others) criticize current state, it's because it *sucks for developers too*. Teams get fired/flushed after the inevitable rewrite fails to deliver usable experiences, and web gets written off.https://twitter.com/graynorton/status/1159550093235634177 …
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If we want to continue to be web developers, we literally need to keep the web from drowning under the weight of Modern JS...and that is not what's happening when median mobile site includes ~350KiB of script: https://httparchive.org/reports/state-of-javascript …
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350KiB of compressed script :( Several megabytes of actual script. Brotli level 9 won't help the actual problem with all that script.
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The @v8js team has done amazing work to move compilation off-thread, which is the biggest step-change in the traces I've seen in the past year, but even that is not enough. We're drowning in script.
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