[mathgladiator]

I feel the frustration, and the core of the frustration is that the requirements for the web were fundamentally wrong. Thus, we keep adding new things to the browser to enable new things.

The JavaScript hate is justified for large websites where you download MBs of javascript. I'm discovering that a lean JavaScript framework and streams are a much better idiom.

If I could go back in time, then I would love to long-lived sockets to be used rather than short-lived request-response.

[Karrot_Kream]

One of the issues with long-lived sockets is power consumption. Generally you need to send keep alive packets or else the connection is dropped and doing that forces your modem to wake up and send bytes.

QUIC is a big step in the right direction as long as middleboxes don't hollow it out.