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> Seriously, JS was never meant to be performant.

If you mean “wasn’t originally meant”, that might be true. But it’s been meant to be performant for quite a long time, with huge investments behind the realization of that intent.

It’s fine if you have nostalgia for whatever you think was the original vision behind JS. But that hasn’t been the operating vision for it for many years.



it’s really important so that Facebook can be fast (Facebook is still slow)




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