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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
What I don't talk about in my updated post on the Performance Inequality Gap [1] is how absolutely shit the results of modern frontend have been *for developers*.
I sit with teams (yes, plural) whose forward progress (and sometimes, their product launches) have been brought to a halt because the results of the now-default React/Redux/Apollo/WebPack/CSS-in-JS stack are SO bad that they bring executive's fast laptops to a stand-still.
[1]: https://infrequently.org/2022/12/performance-baseline-2023/