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by cle 2068 days ago
So what? Web pages can do more than they used to. Engineers of yore similarly decried the ugly machine code generated by compilers. The HTML and CSS our browsers download are targeted at browsers, not humans.

If someone writes a buggy, inefficient C program, we fix the bugs, we don't abandon C and rewrite everything in assembly because the resulting machine code is prettier.

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> If someone writes a buggy, inefficient C program, we fix the bugs, we don't abandon C and rewrite everything in assembly because the resulting machine code is prettier.

Several languages have popped up to address buggy, inefficient C programs and the problems they cause.

That’s not the point.