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0 pointscosmic_cheese6mo ago0 comments

> There is very, very little reason to care about optimizing frontend performance for a vast majority of apps. Users just don't care. It doesn't make the company more money.

There’s plenty of users who care, but when the competition is also all slow and heavy they don’t get any choice in the matter.

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jonny_eh6mo ago

It's usually not the framework that causes apps/sites to be slow.

cosmic_cheeseOP6mo ago

Not directly, but when you have devs who only know how to build with the framework and don’t have a grip on what’s going on under the hood or how it all interacts in the browser environment (increasingly common), performance is sure to take a hit.

jonny_eh6mo ago

It's not React's fault that people either don't know what they're doing, or don't care enough to make their software performant. This is not a new phenomenon, bad/rushed software has always existed.

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muspimerol6mo ago

This happens regardless of which framework is used or even if no framework is used. Plenty of web developers do not understand how the browser or JS work at a deep level.

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0 pointscosmic_cheese6mo ago0 comments

> There is very, very little reason to care about optimizing frontend performance for a vast majority of apps. Users just don't care. It doesn't make the company more money.

There’s plenty of users who care, but when the competition is also all slow and heavy they don’t get any choice in the matter.

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jonny_eh6mo ago

It's usually not the framework that causes apps/sites to be slow.

cosmic_cheeseOP6mo ago

jonny_eh6mo ago

It's not React's fault that people either don't know what they're doing, or don't care enough to make their software performant. This is not a new phenomenon, bad/rushed software has always existed.

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muspimerol6mo ago

This happens regardless of which framework is used or even if no framework is used. Plenty of web developers do not understand how the browser or JS work at a deep level.

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j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse