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Besides the other good points people have made, I would just like to add that this is the kind of mentality that I really dislike to see. Just because resources are cheap, do we really need to waste it all? Computers and smartphones are faster than ever, yet there are always websites that I find completely unusable on my phone. And some of these websites I actually need to use because they are required by the government... Looking at you, MitID!

I'm inclined to call this The Javascript Mentality, though I don't mean to insult JS users. JS definitely has its place, it's just very much abused, unfortunately.

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Ok so what exactly is better than FLAC? I'm not aware of any "usable" lossless encoding algo. Truth is "nobody" bothers to develop open source lossless audio codecs. Of course you can always buy Dolby because there seems to be the "efficiencies" that you are looking for along with locked-in hardware and locked-in software.

By "resources" in this case I was referring to storage space. I could have written my comment more clearly, sorry. I do really like FLAC for saving space, and I hate websites that have 20+ seconds of interaction latency.

Edit: Of course websites being slow has nothing to do with storage space, but it has everything to do with wasting resources – whether that's storage space or CPU cycles.

the "mentality" you are referring to is not limited to JS at all, and has less to do with the particular language. Market dynamics, company incentives and a larger pool of developers among other reasons contribute to that more.

I don't think GP meant "JavaScript Mentality" as "a mentality that's limited to js", but more as "a mentality you see a lot in the js-adjacent world".

Precisely :)

well, setting blanket labels in that way is bound to be inaccurate and even inflammatory, as on the surface it sounds like bait to disparage groups around one specific language.

or, a more better term would be 'Atleast it works' mentality.

I think of it as the Python Mentality

Right, that's not too far either. I guess the difference is that the abuse of Python doesn't hurt me in my daily life in an obvious way, unlike Javascript.

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