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This is too funny. I predicted that when I entered this post the first comment would be HN people bemoaning complexity. And indeed it was.

The commenter's proposed solution was WASM. Wasm doesn't solve the issues in this post. What does this post talk about:

- serving content from the edge (wasm doesn't do anything there) - asset optimization (wasm doesn't help)

- pre-rendering complex pages to static HTML+css (wasm doesn't help)

More broadly, minimizing network trips, pre-fetching data, etc. etc. these are all things where Wasm won't help any more or less than JS.

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It’s like they are either getting old and don’t like to keep up with modern web development but it’s easy to see this behavior elsewhere too.

Aversion towards new way of doing things where people feel like the old way was just working is too common and predictable sometimes. “Things work” using old way, but, does that mean that no optimizations are to be made? Optimizations further lead to reiteration of the way we do things.

Also, an individual can stick to their old way of doing things but to rant over the new way is just- tasteless.

Young developer thing all motion is progress. Old developers know most is not, but the trap at the other end of the continuum is thinking no motion is progress.

There’s always a little progress, sometimes quite a bit. But a lot of the res5 is cycling between two options that both have very bad corner cases.

That's HN. 8 years ago it would have been how Ethereum will make this all redundant

So you probably ought to listen to some degree? 8 years ago investing in ethereum was a very good idea and it definitely shook up the world to some extent.

Of course people exaggerate but it's important to see the trends and get an understanding of what people are feeling as a whole.

In this case, for all their complaining, people are kind of right. The web is becoming unnecessarily complex for the kinds of applications most of us interact with and there are solutions coming out there that address these pains: see HTMLx or phoenix liveview.

Filecoin-esque networks may.

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