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-# WWW
-
-- Didn't really have much put together but still wanted to do a talk, so here we are.
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-# Who am I
-
-- Former webmaster
-- Programming languages
-  - Hate every language
-- 4 years industry
-- 10+ years complaining
-
-# History
-
-- HTML
-- Javascript
-  - Rather unglamorous
-- CSS
-  - Don't know much, let's gloss over it
-- Flash
-  - Super easy to make and publish things
-- jQuery
-  - One of the longest lasting web frameworks
-- Coffeescript
-  - Introduced a lot of funny little syntax
-  - Transpiling wasn't new, but warmed a lot of people up to the idea of transpiling
-  - Used by a lot of big projects and companies
-  - Benefits not really helpful anymore since they got added to ES6
-- Angular
-- ES6
-  - fetch
-  - spread operator
-  - arrow functions
-
-This is where my list ends, but still lots of new and interesting Javascript projects today.
-
-# Things we fixed
-
-- Scoping
-  - Var/Let
-- Arrow functions
-  - Eliminated `this`
-- Modules
-  - Massively improved analyzability + tree-shaking
-- STDLIB
-
-# Good things
-
-- Bundling
-  - This is basically just preprocessors
-  - Other languages should have this
-- HMR
-  - Incredibly useful and versatile
-  - `watchexec`
-- SSR
-  - Solved the problem of not being able to render immediately
-  - Good for static site generators like Astro
-- X-plat UI
-  - Electron/Tauri
-  - Lot of people could develop really fast
-  - Compare to Qt
-  - Don't play the "familiarity" card
-
-# Reactivity
-
-- Flux
-  - Single point of update
-  - Redux
-  -
-- Signals
-  - Enables better reactivity
-  - Note on Svelte+friends: they talk about compiling but it seems a lot of their compiled code isn't really that much more concise, large runtime
-
-Which brings me to my controversial take:
-
-# Web is a solid choice
-
-- "Small" software as we know it today pretty much doesn't really exist, given the complexity of hardware and needs of users
-- We have optimized for "having nice things" a lot, and there's no point in taking it
-
-# Bad
-
-- Equality
-  - Truthy /falsy
-  - `==` still in the language, typescript doesn't really fix this
-  - Macros
-    - JS was supposed to be a Lisp
-    - No nice features from homoiconicity
-- Runtime
-  - Privacy discussion
-- Ecosystem
-  - NPM sucks
-  - Lots of packages for small simple things
-  - Supply chain attacks
-  - Security of running npm software on ur own computer, possibly an OS problem instead
-- Lack of competition in browsers
-  - WEI / FLOC / google mess
-
-# What's next?
-
-- HTMX
-- CCSS
-- Declarative web framework