The Performance Inequality Gap, 2023

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It is not an exaggeration to say that modern frontend is so enamoured by post-scarcity fairy tales that it is mortgaging the web's future for another round of night drinking at the JavaScript party.

The incompetence prevalent in JavaScript is a common human problem not confined to JavaScript. People generally lack the self-awareness, on even the most superficial level, to measure things. As a result they are doomed to a culture of comforting repetition. To be a 10x developer you don’t have to be a genius software developer, you just have to be so vaguely minutely so self-aware as to stop repeating bad decisions with increasing frequency.