As part of the devs farewell message on their site, they have included malicious code to make each visitor sends 2,000 requests to the dbzer0 servers in an attempt to DDOS and take the instance offline.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (3 children)

To be fair, it's not as if it supports languages other than fucking Javascript anyway, so it mostly doesn't matter.

Edit: I don't want to split hairs about modules or json or whatever; I just want to be salty about how we could've had Scheme or Python in the browser.

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

We could have had VM languages also like C# and Java and had web that was actually fast.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago

The type attribute is not only to specify the language. It's like one case out of several. It definitely matters in those contexts where you want to do the other things you can do with the type attribute.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 hours ago

Actually some sites do. Instagram uses type=application/json to store preloaded data.