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Sanity reasons, I suppose. One does not need to run a program in Turing-complete language just to express something as simple as few weighted sets.

Wow, Poe's Law strikes again. Are you making a joke or are you serious?

I wanted to make clear that I was serious, but there is no seriousness punctuation, only irony punctuation [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation

Well, then see drdaeman's response. There's no reason to add anything more which requires JavaScript unless there's absolutely no alternative.

Otherwise, why not just serve up a blank page which executes JavaScript to add characters one at a time?

These hints can be placed inside the HTTP response header. A JavaScript API can only be used via `<script>`, which can only appear on the page (after the HTTP response has arrived).

Off-hand, I'd guess you can use these hints earlier in the loading process than you could start executing JS.