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> All this to support more ads per page.

I'm also very afraid of the future of Web Assembly.

Both of these technologies i'm afraid aren't going to make things better, faster and more lightweight. They are just going to allow the bloat of the web to become worse without noticeable symptoms.

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Who cares about the WebAssembly on the web? I'm looking forward to WebAssembly because it'll mean that Electron will become the new JRE: a lightweight, portable, feature-rich "full-fat GUI" application platform. ;)

This made me think of the problem of highways: the more lane you add, the more cars come to use your road and congestion is not reduced.

This is a problem with computers in general. For example IDEs and simple electron apps taking huge amounts of memory.

It's the reverse of Moore's law:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law

The problem with highways is called induced or latent demand. It’s a known problem in a lot of fields.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand

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