Alex RussellLearn to spot, and write off, the Hacker News trope that real problems with real frontends aren't real problems for actual users because Rust and WASM will save us.
You cannot make this shit up:
Ben Delarre@slightlyoff hah. Well at least you got the cookie consent pop-up in around 6s! ;-)
@bendelarre 26MB of WASM to order a 🍕? We should all be so lucky!
@slightlyoff that's... Impressively wasteful. How do you even manage that? We deliver Photoshop in less!
westbrook@slightlyoff But, it's an example...just imagine how much more code when it ACTUALLY orders a pizza!?!
@westbrook I don't know what's in the 9.5MB `ordering-system.data` file that load after the 26MB WASM bundle, but at this point I'm afraid to ask.
Paul Mason@slightlyoff @westbrook The pizza. 😒
@paulhmason @westbrook ...smells like anchovies.
@slightlyoff @bendelarre That 26mb of wasm will cost more to download than the pizza in some countries. There was a very good reason why Polymer was so popular with African software developers (and Flutter, but not for web).
@slightlyoff @bendelarre But seriously, that's almost an order of magnitude larger than Blazor (wasm), which is already an unbelievably antisocial thing to inflict on a person.