What Charles Stross thinks about JavaScript

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British science fiction writer (Accelerando, the Laundry Files), based in Edinburgh; a pharmacist and programmer before writing full time.

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1. 27 Sept 2026, 10:25 UTC

   Our readingThe web should go back to basics: small, human-writable, no client-side scripting, hostile to advertising.

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   Their wordsI long for a back-to-basics web: Markdown for text, JPEG images, no video, no Javascript or other client-side scripting, writable by a human being with a text editor. Make it as advertising/corporate hostile as possible. And above all keep it *small*.

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