2025. you go to a website. you see all the elements on the page pop-in, loading one by one. it's like the 90s again. your internet connection might be hundreds of megabits per second. the web designer is using a 4k video file as a looping background, and that somehow loads quickly compared to all the actual useful elements on the page. three seconds, five seconds, ten seconds. each checkbox and table has to initialize its own software stack of UI abstraction libraries and surveillance middleware
@jk that’s me in the other corner, with the Clojure language and the Electric Clojure compiler slicing my display and calculation logic along a complex contour out of sight that makes my application as fast as it ought to be.