@hisham_hm I don't see it as that bad, JavaScript is not going away. But the truth is, the phones are now powerful enough to run entire operating systems within browser tabs. So we're getting much more capabilities then we had.

But yeah, that means that some of those more advanced apps will not be open source. They're not open source even now though.

@hisham_hm But now you can run htop on the browser itself :troll:

@hisham_hm The same goes for HTTP 2.0 and onwards. Or binary log files (*cough*systemd*cough*). It usually is more space-efficient and thus faster, but things get a LOT less discoverable, which is a real, tangible loss (I've met many recent CS graduates who get that same blank its-magic look on their faces all the time that I used to expect only from non-powerusers).

Showing people how I could press F12 and change stuff on the school’s website made them think I was hackerman 😔

@hisham_hm Web components reverses this trend, and before you say it can't be done, load up Photoshop web

@hisham_hm nowadays many websites are minified so the "view source" option is not really helpful even without using wasm.

@hisham_hm reminds me of "HTML, CSS and our vanishing industry entry points"
https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2019/01/30/html-css-and-our-vanishing-industry-entry-points/