[Fluorescence]

With minimisers and obfuscators I don't see wasm adding to the problem.

I felt something was really lost once css classes became randomised garbage on major sites. I used to be able to fix/tune a website layout to my needs but now it's pretty much a one-time effort before the ids all change.

[hinkley]

I’ve been trying to fix UI bugs in Grafana and “randomized garbage” is real. Is that a general React thing or just something the crazy people do? Jesus fucking Christ.

[Fluorescence]

I assume it was first as anti-scraping / anti-adblock measures but then frameworks with styled components spread it even further.

Remember when the trend was "semantic class names" and folk would bikeshed the most meaningful easy to understand naming schemes?

How we have fallen.

[hinkley]

I was doing my most intense period of frontend work during that era. I went to work on backend for a long while and came out of my cave into this bullshit. This is worse than Struts, which was a bad trip we all eventually woke up from.