
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
It finally crystallised, after all these years. I now understand my groundhog day experience of being the first person to take traces for a high-profile service, or to read the JS a tower of bundlers and build tools "optimised": the JS community (principally the Over-Reactors) are theorists.
Web Application Theorists.
WATs.
They do not understand how it's going because *looking* is discouraged. These are not engineers. They do not engineer because they don't accept constraints as legitimate.