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I agree. I don't do frontend stuff, but I sit next to the team that does. They take a lot of pride in making fast-loading pages that render quickly and respond instantly. That's not compatible with writing giant, bloated, inefficient code.

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>They take a lot of pride in making fast-loading pages that render quickly and respond instantly.

Maybe in your company. My experience browsing modern front-end SPA design however begs to differ. They pride themselves in loading megabytes of uncompressed images, layers of invisible background images, frameworks to load frameworks, auto-download/auto-playing 4k videos...

No one prides themselves on any of those things.

And yet they still do it.

i agree with you but you have to keep in mind that pages which load fast on a fiber connection and render and respond quickly on the latest macbook don't guarantee the same for the average user.

giving devs 4 year old laptops would help but when shiny startup is offering new macbooks how can you compete?

Giving devs 4yo laptops when they only need then for testing seems, erm, strange, limiting.

Just have them test under processing and bandwidth limits?

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