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tzarko | 1 year ago

You're somebody!

So, do you care because of: a) Load times? b) Accessibility on different devices? c) Philosophical grounds?

Because based on what you're saying (the 10 mile high abstraction level), it's about developer experience, which is not about text?

Text being what the end-user will ultimately see despite the underlying framework being React or a guy manually typing out the thing over TCP on every request.

Don't get me wrong, I despise it as much as you do, but I think it's important to recognize that ultimately the hate is only valid in the real world if it's about the user and not the developer experience.

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lynx23|1 year ago

Well, a) is a given, everyone cares about load times, even those that dont have the technical competency to name the phenomenon. And for me, personally, I guess its b and c. I am blind, so I do care about accessibility. However, I am also a old-time Linux command-line guy, from the 90s. I actually like Lynx, the load time and the simplicity, and the resource usage. If in my world a site could load in lynx (its all just about text) and it doesn't because of silly javascript framework, a kitten gets skinned and dies a horrible death.