While I have respect for any programmer, regardless of language, the sheer amount of web developers who cram needless JS in their website makes me sad. That's not to say that JS itself is an inherently bad language, but perhaps introducing it as a web standard was a mistake.
I would be much more comfortable with some of alternate standard, a standard for webapps where folks could download them similarly to how "Chromium Apps" used to work. But the idea of having the web filled with JS instead of the originally intended hypertext makes me a bit... sad. Espeically because I never really lived to see the web in it's purest form. I started using the internet in the Flash era.
It is rather upsetting when people trash JS devs just because of the abuse by some web developers. Please don't do that, JS is not an inherently bad language. It being shoehorned into every website, often by the demand of companies, is the issue.
The problem with javascript is it is designed to break the fundamental concept of the web: HTML is a *simple* markup language which can be applied to arbitrary texts, and which leaves the exact manner of presentation TO THE VIEWER.
Anyway the web is so over, we need interfaces which are as rich, three-dimensional and responsive as modern online mmos, with lots of bots, humans using bots, humans, cyborgs, ais and whatever communing online. And in-eye displays. Or maybe, in-brain.
Man-Computer Symbiosis
JCR Licklider
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What I'm saying is: Please don't make an entire website that just needs to be text in React because it looks prettier. I understand if you're building something that requires user interaction, but if I'm going on the website of a local business and it won't display without JS... It's rather frustrating.