No joke. I’ve tried a few napkin sketches on the cost of javascript worldwide an

No joke. I’ve tried a few napkin sketches on the cost of javascript worldwide and I can’t come close to a believable number because it so vast. It’s insane. I mean, interpreted languages are fine with current hardware but without the equivalent of data types, a compiler, syntax and logic errors are vast.
Secondly, add that while the chrome architecture appears to tolerate it, we’re still using virtual doms and the sh—t code required to counter-intuitively manipulate them. That should all be built into the browser, and the syntax nightmare should be over with.
Third, because of all this we have to write ungodly amounts of test scripts, and maintaining them is a nightmare given the ease and frequency of JS changes.
I’m all for the browser as a pseudo-operating system. It’s more complex than the OS’s today anyway. I do NOT want to go back to having to ship code on disks or force downloads and reinstalls every time we want to ship a tweak. That’s crazy. But this nonsense has got to stop. And unfortunately we’ve now trained two generations of devs to do sh—t work with sh—-t tools.

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