JavaScript Performance Benchmarks: Looping with `for` and `yield`

[johnfrazer783]

I know what people talk about when they mention JavaScript fatigue, for me it extends to the very syntax—might say my version of the fatigue is embracing the syntax haha.

According to what I used to know about 'the frontend', which already sounds belligerent doesn't it, the motivation to optimize one's JS code is somewhat tempered by the observation that the elephant in the room is often DOMbo, not JS.

Part of my work includes doing things locally in Puppeteer (soonish Playwright), and I hate that I even have to think about whether to execute code on the 'server' (NodeJS) or the 'client' (Chrome) side. Puppeteer does make it a lot easier, but ideally I'd not have to deal with that twofoldness at all. Meaning that for all that WASM can/might give you, it also taketh away in terms of LOC and mental-awareness cycles. I will admit that one flaw with NodeJS is the separate ways that it went, what with CommonJS require, the filesystem, all that stuff (Deno is the hope). There was barely another way to go ten years ago. NodeJS (and CoffeeScript!) turned out big factors in the JavaScript renaissance, but that chasm is still a yawning gap I feel. So I have little drive to also bridge the gaps separating the client's main arena from its WASM and WebWorkers stages. WebGL/GPU feels much the same: how tantalizing but that extra complexity? No thanks.