I know this sounds bad, but maybe this is a blessing in disguise. Necessity is the mother of invention and maybe browser technology should be funded by governments instead of privately owned advertising megacorps?

  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    CSS is a bloated mess. Javascript is a bloated mess.

    Why would less money make people do more work to fix this?

      • towerful@programming.dev
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        5 hours ago

        Cutting out swaths of code and features - without breaking other code and features - is not a small task.
        It’s probably more time consuming and complex than just continuing to update at a slower pace.