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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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    3. 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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    4. 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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    5. 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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      Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 3 Oct 2019
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      I'll say it: NPM was a mistake.

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        2. Mikeal Rogers‏ @mikeal 3 Oct 2019
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          That’s sort of a foolish statement. It’s exactly what was needed and did that job tremendously well. It’s like saying Buffer was a mistake, or the module system was a mistake, when it only exists because the language didn’t provide what we needed.

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        3. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 3 Oct 2019
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          Oh, I'm not defending TC39 and the sh*tshow that was Modules, only saying that NPM made over-use of 3p code attractive and bundling a requirement and if the choice is between that outcome and one where costs are more direct and the web more healthy, I'd pick the latter every time

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