The browser's main thread is expensive

Post by pjmlp » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 9:05 AM UTC

stickfigure wrote: post #147

sgift wrote: post #138

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Ignoring for a moment that most websites don't need any interactivity: Even for those that need it, for almost any of them something JQuery-like is more than enough. You really, really, really don't need the latest super big framework.

> most websites don't need any interactivity I dispute this. I don't have any statistics either, but my subjective experience is that most websites are not like newspapers or blogs. Even shopping websites have pretty heavy interactivity these days. Also, most boring pure-information-presentation problems are mostly solved by ancient technologies like wordpress. If you're working in web development in 2026, you probab…

Post by saadyousfi » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 9:34 AM UTC

Post by pedrovhb » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 1:10 PM UTC

kccqzy wrote: post #114

Here is a problem that I had thought about in my last frontend project: the project needed to parse a user-provided string to provide syntax highlighting. The implementation was to parse the string immediately after a user keystroke so the user always sees correct colors. But I had this nagging thought that if I had designed the grammar wrong some parses might take more than linear time and would hold the main thread…