> I guess I'm just sad that the JavaScript+HTML community have been taken over by people who don't really seem to like JavaScript+HTML much.
I'm inclined to agree, although, to be honest, it doesn't help that JavaScript and HTML really suck for developing applications. And you can't really blame them, because they weren't designed for that. We happened to shoehorn them into these roles because their portability and accessibility were so convenient, rather than focusing on building something better. So, this is where we are.
However, having got my start with Web development back in 2003, I very much remember a time when Web development was simpler. When jQuery came out is when everything started going downhill. That's when everyone decided that serving a buttload of third-party JS with your payload was an acceptable thing to do, and it's only gotten worse since then. And it's probably tumblr's fault or perhaps Reddit's fault that putting your text inside of an image became an acceptable thing to do.
At some point, every developer cared about how much of the system's resources their apps were leeching. Then, as resources became more and more plentiful, developers stopped caring, and now we have the occasional blog posts, like "How I Reduced the Number of Servers We Need", when someone rediscovers the lost art of being aware of your resource consumption.
Wirth's Law is probably my biggest disappointment with computing.
I'm inclined to agree, although, to be honest, it doesn't help that JavaScript and HTML really suck for developing applications. And you can't really blame them, because they weren't designed for that. We happened to shoehorn them into these roles because their portability and accessibility were so convenient, rather than focusing on building something better. So, this is where we are.
However, having got my start with Web development back in 2003, I very much remember a time when Web development was simpler. When jQuery came out is when everything started going downhill. That's when everyone decided that serving a buttload of third-party JS with your payload was an acceptable thing to do, and it's only gotten worse since then. And it's probably tumblr's fault or perhaps Reddit's fault that putting your text inside of an image became an acceptable thing to do.
At some point, every developer cared about how much of the system's resources their apps were leeching. Then, as resources became more and more plentiful, developers stopped caring, and now we have the occasional blog posts, like "How I Reduced the Number of Servers We Need", when someone rediscovers the lost art of being aware of your resource consumption.
Wirth's Law is probably my biggest disappointment with computing.