Why is it ‘okay if you can “just write JS”, but somehow you’re not good enough if you “just write HTML and CSS”?’ https://buff.ly/2y7vTvz
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Replying to @rachelnabors
There is great value in writing solid HTML/CSS - for sure - but the trend of js can easily be explained by early-to-mid stage startups imo
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Replying to @rachelnabors
You see startups that build products with no javascript, and only HTML/CSS in the early stages? Do you have an example?
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This question is the literal epitome of myopic programmer privilege. I see so many products *fail* because JS; drives me batty.
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Have spent years of my life making things like ES6 and Promises/async-await happen and I'm *shocked* at JS community's self-congratulation
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...the results from over-indexing on JS and undervaluing markup/CSS are mediocre at best.
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Worst-case, they create the unusable horror-shows that cross my desk *every week*
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It really, really is. It's the reason I've been giving perf talks and wrote this: https://infrequently.org/2017/10/can-you-afford-it-real-world-web-performance-budgets/ …
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