this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2025
56 points (100.0% liked)

Technology

77096 readers
3005 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
L4s@hackingne.ws
56
In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet (arstechnica.com)
submitted 5 days ago by JoMiran@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world
21 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

As someone who has been in Internet, e-commerce and the all around development of the web almost since its inception, this article makes me feel very, very old.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Alternate title:

In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that ruined the Internet

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

And, if I recall correctly, the other option besides rolling their own interpreter was to just use Scheme as the browser scripting language. Which would have been immeasurably better.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

And native software.

Because JavaScript runs everywhere, we have companies creating "apps" and PC "programs" that are little more than glorified web views. There's normally nothing wrong with having shared code across implementations, but when that shared code is a 4 MB bundle of crap that creates 100s of MB in dictionaries and JIT compiler caches, you're ruining the end-user experience.

[–] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

100s of MB in dictionaries and JIT compiler caches

Don't forget the hundreds of MBs of NPM dependencies