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[-] sugartits@lemmy.world 35 points 4 months ago

JavaScript was a mistake.

And it went downhill from there.

[-] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 30 points 4 months ago

Eh, scriptable content was probably fine.

Techbros going 'holy shit, we should make EVERYTHING a website!' was the curse that doomed us.

[-] pentagrammar@programming.dev 29 points 4 months ago

Pushing for bloated web apps instead of having optimized and perfectly functional websites was what killed it for me.

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 30 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It was fine when it was contained to an actual web site instead of infecting desktop software too. To me, using JS for that purpose feels like using PHP to write a 3D video game.

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago

using PHP to write a 3D video game.

Somewhere, someone just had a really bad idea.

[-] chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 16 points 4 months ago

It’s a general language (though primarily adopted by web as backend engine), so you can basically expect people already have had this idea.

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