You know that CPU-bound performance would take a really small fragment of those ...

xigoi · 2026-02-16T09:46:41 1771235201

If you think 10 seconds is a strawman, clearly you haven’t used sites like GitHub on a cheap device.

curtisblaine · 2026-02-16T21:58:31 1771279111

Case in point, github is server side rendered. I don't think it uses any client side framework.

xigoi · 2026-02-16T22:18:01 1771280281

Try opening it with JavaScript disabled and you will see exactly how much is server-side rendered.

iso1631 · 2026-02-16T15:38:40 1771256320

But that's not the javascript, it's how it's used (react or whatever)

You can write terrible non-performant code in assembly and C, and perfectly speedy pages in html and javascript (say the page you're on at the moment).

You wouldn't write a new cutting edge video codec in javascript - not one you wanted to use anyway - but given that we had performant guis running on 286s at 12MHz, Javascript being 1/10th the speed of C isn't the problem.