Sam and Ryan read and discuss Tom MacWright's recent article "Second-guessing the modern web," as well as Rich Harris's response "In defense of the modern web." The articles respectively argue against and for the JavaScript-centric approach to building websites that has taken root over the past ten years and debate issues of performance, architectural complexity, and user experience.
Topics include:
6:30 – "Second-guessing the modern web" by Tom MacWright
52:27 – Dan Abramov's thoughts on Twitter
58:50 – "In defense of the modern web" by Rich Harris
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