JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)
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We replaced simple websites with complex apps nobody asked for. Now it takes a complex build pipeline just to change a headline.
  • xangadix@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Hey, I’ve read exactly the same article 15 years ago, but back then it was Flash that “broke the web”.

    • Oisteink@feddit.nlEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Flash never got in the way the same like js. My main take from the whole piece is how it has changed the way websites are developed, to match that of traditional software development. Like the need to deploy to change some text in the footer of our website

      • xangadix@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Ow my dear, you never used flash did you? We didn’t even have ‘deploys’ back then, we needed to re-upload the entire container file, to change some text in the footer