> Uses JavaScript in 2025.
> Complains about enshittification.
this post was submitted on 02 Dec 2025
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The fuck else am I supposed to make websites with, rust compiled to WASM?
It’s my opinion that the modern web is massively enshittified, and was so long before that term came into play.
Too much focus on flashy (and often obstructive) presentation, constant reinvention of the wheel, and no regard for the actual information being delivered.
I mean, you mention “semantic markup” to your average web developer and they just stare at you blankly. They’re like the seagulls from Finding Nemo: DIV? DIV! DIV!
Useful information structures? Meaningful metadata? Consistent patterns? Forget about it.
HTML and JavaScript are part of the problem. They provide too much freedom and not nearly enough structure or guidance.
And even if you put all that aside, JavaScript is an abomination that is entirely unsuited to the purpose it’s being used for. Ask any JS developer. Or look at how many ridiculous frameworks have been slapped over the top of it in a vain attempt to address its inadequacies.
Ok that’s great but I need to eat
Hey! Sometimes it mostly works, and that's all I can reasonably ask for anymore.
It is only used because it is the only available option on web. Don't bitch me about webassembly when it is missing half of the api and doubles up page load time.
WASM is that much slower? I get that needing a f*** Js wrapper to be able to use the DOM cannot be good, but is there really that much of a difference?
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Well, worst case scenario someone can fork it.
Or it can go fork itself.
Maybe, with 'AI agents', code can, for the first time in history, fork itself.
Damn it. I've been following bun for a long time and using it casually... Guess it's good I didn't get too far into it
As a regular joe on the web, it doesn't affect me directly, yet. However, I foresee more slop sites getting put out there in as the Execucult's naked desire to worship and exalt the thing they are desperately trying to make fetch: AI. This year is so fucking weird with all the AI glazing and executives trying to desperately will AI into a moneymaking thing. Spoiler Alert: It's probably going to continue hemorrhaging money as most people can't be arsed to use it nor do they want products with it crammed in.
In fairness, Anthropic needed some way to bundle up to stay warm in the upcoming AI winter..,
I doubt it's going to be enough.
Ah fuck, o7 bun. It was a pretty nice runtime, Deno it is now I guess.
I'm so glad I don't have to use JS
Every Silicon Valley company has to deal with this on a weekly basis.