@jonny i don't think of myself as "anti javascript" in a strong categorical sense, but i do think of myself as despairing of web technology for a complex of reasons in which javascript is fairly intertwingled, and i'd say... it's complicated.
some of those reasons:
- browser as platform that's too complex to be re-implemented for less than billions of dollars (and thus, at this point, a locked-in effective monopoly)
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- browser as host to just a truly staggering amount of fragile & inhumane software development complexity
- barriers to entry to what was once a pretty simple environment to create things in
- necessity of trusting huge amounts of arbitrary and frequently malicious client-side code to participate whatsoever in web
(2/3)