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by incrudible 1865 days ago
> HTML and CSS were/are all built-around describing and styling textual content, and computer program source code files are invariably all textual content files.

HTML and CSS are fairly well optimized, but dynamic HTML and the DOM were an afterthought. If you could throw out a lot of the guarantees about DOM behavior, you could make a much faster browser, but you'd also break the web.