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by HelloNurse 2657 days ago
It is somewhat popular to hate on useless dung heaps of pointless Javascript, not because it's Javascript (writing complex code in a mediocre language with mediocre libraries is a separate concern), nor because backend developers have good reasons to do things in the backend, but because it's overcomplicated and so bloated that it causes performance problems, just like nested table layouts a few years ago.