[danielvaughn]

Yep.

Another issue is that you often simply aren’t given the time to make it performant. Deadlines are heavily accelerated for web products. You’re barely allotted time to fix bugs, never mind enhancements.

Most web devs don’t want to make slow sites, they’re not given the opportunity to.

[mwcz]

They aren't given the opportunity to, that's true. We've also been in an industry-wide performance drought for so many years that many devs don't even realize how fast websites can be.

[danielvaughn]

Yep. I recently ran an experiment where I tried appending elements to a list in rapid succession. One with near-native JS and another with React. The former was about 40 times faster.