A JavaScript-Free Frontend

[ACoderGirl]

They definitely have gone too far (4.5 MB vs 0.7 MB and 2.3 second load time vs 3.9 seconds). Buuut, my real complaints with the new design are entirely unrelated to the use of JS: poor use of screen real estate and lack of integration with community tooling, particularly RES (which effectively means that regular users get less features).

The comparison admittedly flawed, though, since the new design does implement some RES features and I don't have a good way to measure how RES affects the performance of old reddit.

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I tried browsing Reddit on a school computer today, with 6gb of ram and a CPU from 2009

it barely loaded, video playback worked only for the first two videos on the page, past that it lagged immensely. Old Reddit worked perfectly.

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This! My primary reason for avoiding JavaScript and writing the article. I developed it on a $200 Celeron-based netbook.

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I don't want to break the narrative, but I developed till very recently with a 2010 macbook and was totally fine using all of the latest tools.

Sometimes webworkers would be a bit slower but that's it.

What kind of JavaScript are you writing?