Infrequently Noted

Alex Russell on browsers, standards, and the process of progress.

The "Developer Experience" Bait-and-Switch

We cannot continue to use as much JavaScript as is now normal and expect the web to flourish. At the same time, most developers experience no constraint on their use of JS...until it's too late. Lightweight, effective tools are here, but we're stuck in a rhetorical rut. We need to reset our conversation about 'developer experience' to factor in the asymmetric cost of JS.

Newer Posts: 2018/12

Older Posts : 2018/06