I love Deno, I hope it succeeds, but I'm disappointed to see them so confidently publishing a broad assertion like this that's very weakly argued, and heavily biased towards promoting their own position in the stack
> Compatibility is higher with server-side rendering because, again, the HTML is generated on the server, so it is not dependent on the end browser.
Excuse my bluntness, but this is complete nonsense. Browser incompatibility in 2023 is mostly limited, in my experience, to 1) dark corners of CSS behavior, and 2) newer, high-power features like WebRTC. #1 is going to be the same regardless of where your HTML is rendered, and if you're using #2, server-side rendering probably isn't an option for what you're trying to do anyway. I can confidently say browser compatibility has roughly zero effect on core app logic or HTML generation today.
> Complexity is lower because the server does most of the work of generating the HTML so can often be implemented with a simpler and smaller codebase.
This, again, is totally hand-wavy and mostly nonsensical. It's entirely dependent on what kind of app, what kind of features/logic it has, etc. Server-rendering certain apps can definitely be simpler than client-rendering them! And the opposite can just as easily be true.
> Performance is higher with the server because the HTML is already generated and ready to be displayed when the page is loaded.
This is only partly true, and it's really the only partly-valid point. Modern statically-rendered front-ends will show you the initial content very quickly, and then will update quickly as you navigate, but there is a JS loading + hydration delay between seeing the landing page content and being able to interact with it at the beginning. You certainly don't need "a desktop...with a wired internet connection" for that part of the experience to be good, but I'm sure it's less than ideal for people with limited bandwidth. It's something that can be optimized and minimized in various ways (splitting code to make the landing page bundle smaller, reducing the number of nested components that need to be hydrated, etc), but it's a recurring challenge for sure.
The tech being demonstrated here is interesting, but I wish they'd let it stand on its own instead of trying to make sweeping statements about the next "tock" of the web trend. As the senior dev trope goes, the answer to nearly everything is "it depends". It shows immaturity or bias to proclaim that the future is a single thing.