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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Occurred while drafting this that language has evolved to give name to what I have observed in the frontend community's desperate lurching from one too-tall pile of JS to the next: hopium

The endless appetite to learn some new JS pattern rather than investigate how browsers actually work, keen to believe that the next set of React/Next/etc. marketing events will provide the answer...it's not working, but it's comfortably numbing.

https://infrequently.org/2022/12/performance-baseline-2023/