Our readingWhat is a korrent?
The complexity of a JavaScript bundling and transpiling toolchain is a bargain worth making, and the right default for building web applications.
Drawn from what David Heinemeier Hansson said, then moved away from
Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Drawn from what David Heinemeier Hansson said, then moved away from
Recalls holdingFive years later, the facts on the ground have finally changed. I no longer believe that this bargain is worth it for most new applications.
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Do you hold this korrent?Do you also believe this?
I hold this tooCannot both be true
Hansson made both cases and has turned on the first: that a bundling and transpiling toolchain is a bargain worth making, and that no-build JavaScript works in production and caches better because small files live forever while a bundle turns over on every semicolon. The claims still exclude each other, and the record of him abandoning the first is the point.
Shared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.