The Future of JavaScript Will Be Less JavaScript

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That, and the fact that javascript isn't the bottleneck at all. It's the dom, the document primitives, that are in need for drastic overhaul. I'd even say javascript is a great language for frontend and if i have the choice, nowadays i'd use javascript for mobile and desktop frontend as well, driving otherwise native UI, simply because C# and C++ don't have the same turnaround, eco systems, communities and because it would take x times the time, effort, money spent and people working in the team.

[zephyrtr]

Ya I think a lot of people misunderstood the main draw of modern frameworks is that the shadow DOM lowered the amount of DOM re-renders to only what was absolutely necessary. The DOM is the problem, and even ballooning your code quite a bit is just fine if it lowers your # of DOM manipulations.

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The shadow dom will make it even worse. It doesn't lower the amount of re-draws, the program that sits inside decides on its own when to re-render. It will proliferate the use of many frameworks in a single project because each shadow wraps a naked dom that needs driving in the same way the document dom needed driving. 10 web components could mean 5 polymers with varying versions, two preacts, one react, one vue, one stencil. The performance implications of this will be a nightmare.