alt Hacker NewsSure, but what people leave out is that it’s mostly C and assembly. That just isn’t realistic anymore if you want a better developer experience that leads to faster feature rollout, better security, and better stabilty.
This is like when people reminisce about the performance of windows 95 and its apps while forgetting about getting a blue screen of death every other hour.
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I think it's a double edged sword of Open-Source/FLOSS... some problems are hard and take a lot of effort. One example I consistently point to is core component libraries... React has MUI and Mantine, and I'm not familiar with any open-source alternatives that come close. As a developer, if there was one for Leptos/Yew/Dioxus, I'd have likely jumped ship to Rust+WASM. They're all fast enough with different advantges and disadvantages.
All said... I actually like TypeScript and React fine for teams of developers... I think NextCloud likely has coordination issues that go beyond the language or even libraries used.
Windows 2000 was quite snappy on my Pentium 150, and pretty rock solid. It was when I stopped being good at fixing computers because it just worked, so I didn't get much practice.
Exactly javascript is a higher level language with a lot of required functionality build in. When compared to C you would need to (for most tasks) write way less actual code in javascript to achieve the same result, for example graphics or maths routines. Therefore it's crazy that it's that big.