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the advance of minifies and transpilers and modules doesnt seem to increase page performance. one of the effect of it being so efficient to minify and transpile is that large imports and frameworks are easier to use, and that boosts the total JS lines of code, making the JS parsing take a long time, and the page performance get "janky"

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Mediocrity expands to fill the space and time available.

Mediocre solutions are fixed with an endless array of tools. Learning tools takes time. And that's just to break even. And around we go again.

Can we really say the average web experience is better than the average of 10 or just 5 years ago? (Hint: Nope.) Find someone who is less frustrated with technology and you'll find someone who has given up on technology.

Good point. And you could argue HTTP2/SPDY and GZIP makes concatenating and minifying files even less of an issue.

I'm not sure it's completely comparable though, file sizes would have increased even without minification.

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