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In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet (arstechnica.com)
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As someone who has been in Internet, e-commerce and the all around development of the web almost since its inception, this article makes me feel very, very old.

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[–] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Alternate title:

In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that ruined the Internet

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

And native software.

Because JavaScript runs everywhere, we have companies creating "apps" and PC "programs" that are little more than glorified web views. There's normally nothing wrong with having shared code across implementations, but when that shared code is a 4 MB bundle of crap that creates 100s of MB in dictionaries and JIT compiler caches, you're ruining the end-user experience.

[–] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

100s of MB in dictionaries and JIT compiler caches

Don't forget the hundreds of MBs of NPM dependencies

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