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Chrome Project 🐡 & Web Standards TL; Blink API OWNER Named PWAs w/ @phae; probably making her ☕ DMs open. Tweets my own; press@google.com for official comms.

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    1. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 3 Oct 2019
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      The JS community is in pretty deep denial today. CPUs won't get faster soon enough to keep the current levels of JS emissions from totally suffocating the mobile web, at which point we'll be the next generation of Cobol programmers -- essential, but not the future. https://twitter.com/malchata/status/1179811899959066625 …

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    2. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 3 Oct 2019
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      We can't afford this: https://httparchive.org/reports/state-of-javascript#bytesJs … 347KiB of *compressed* JS, at the median, is a *disaster*. It's the 2℃ warming of the web ecosystem. Use of the web is in free-fall on mobile, and the web is a non-entity in the lives of folks just coming online now.

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      Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 3 Oct 2019
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      The cumulative effects of JS dependence, as with climate change, are showing up now. And the folks who are least well off are hit hardest. Your JS payload is a _regressive tax_ on content.

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        2. Mikeal Rogers‏ @mikeal 3 Oct 2019
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          The current web development workflow paints us into this corner though. I’m old enough to remember when one of the *benefits* of web development was that you didn’t need to use a compiler. People had “F5 is my compiler” tshirts.

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        3. Mikeal Rogers‏ @mikeal 3 Oct 2019
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          But then and now, people need to use other people’s code, and the workflows and tools we have to enable those ecosystems dictate the kinds of technology and tradeoffs we can make. Currently, bundling is the only option, and that really paints us into a corner.

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        1. Marko Ilic‏ @markoilic96 3 Oct 2019
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          I totally agree with all your tweets. I completely share the same opinion but (there is always a but). You can't sell performance in every market. You, as Google can invest X just to get 0.1s or get something of the main thread. Will the outsource company have that options?

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        1. Marko Ilic‏ @markoilic96 3 Oct 2019
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          It won't. Because it work. When you point the data out and show in an 8 page case study your page loads in 40s on 3G, what is the response? "Most people in the states have 4G or 5G, w don't care"

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        1. Marko Ilic‏ @markoilic96 3 Oct 2019
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          You can't fight that. I think its not only the developers to blame. It goes deeper, the root is not there. The way new people are tought is also to blame, scaffolding includes a framework. Moreover they are not aware of the downsides, only that it can do fancy stuff won't need.

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        2. Marko Ilic‏ @markoilic96 3 Oct 2019
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          Just a bit more. Sorry. Performance is a sensitive topic for me. Yesterday I wanted to make a small app to list some stuff. So I decided lets do it the old way: gulp, scss, html, js... I felt so happy, got to the code in 20min. How long would it take will all modern tools?

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          2 minutes maybe?

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