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Phil Hagelberg

What Phil Hagelberg thinks about JavaScript

@phil-hagelberg · 16 positions · 0 changes of mind

Programmer known online as technomancy; author of Leiningen, the Clojure build tool, and a maintainer of the Fennel programming language.

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  1. Our readingThe mass adoption of React and single-page-app architecture across nearly all web apps was driven by trend-following rather than technical fit, producing fragile, scripting-dependent software.

    Their wordsAs the software industry is largely driven by trends and fashion, React's "cool factor" led to a mass amnesia regarding how to make normal, well-designed web apps made of HTML with a sprinkling of scripting on top and everything became one big tangled, brittle mass of Javascript that completely keeled over when scripting wasn't available.

    ↗in which more paths are charted towards code independencetechnomancy.us 3rd of 3 in this piece

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  3. Our readingMastodon's web client is a heavy React app that breaks without scripting and loads slowly on old hardware.

    Their wordswhen you send someone a link to a post, they can't read it without loading the entire Mastodon frontend app into their browser, which will is a monster React codebase that will break if they have scripting disabled and also can take up to 30 seconds on older hardware.

    ↗in which social media can be put in your own handstechnomancy.us 2nd of 2 in this piece