• Kairos
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    10 hours ago

    Because only JS is able to do that in a web browser. Everything else is just a dependency tree.

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      That’s not necessarily special to JS. It’s special to client-side code. A mobile app writing in swift could do this. A cli tool written in any language could do this.

      This isn’t an argument against JS, it’s an argument against misuse of client resources.

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        10 hours ago

        edited my comment to include the excruciatingly obvious assumption.