• leisesprecher@feddit.org
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    1 month ago

    It’s easy to criticize something when you don’t understand the needs and constraints that led to it.

    And that assumption is exactly what led us to the current situation.

    It doesn’t matter, why the present is garbage, it’s garbage and we should address that. Statements like this are the engineering equivalent of “it is what it is shrug emoji”.

    Take a step back and look at the pile of overengineered yet underthought, inefficient, insecure and complicated crap that we call the modern web. And it’s not only the browser, but also the backend stack.

    Think about how many indirections and half-baked abstraction layers are between your code and what actually gets executed.

    • mox@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 month ago

      Statements like this are the engineering equivalent of “it is what it is shrug emoji”.

      No, what I wrote is nothing like that. Please re-read until you understand it better.