alt Hacker NewsIt’s all incentives. I’ve worked on web projects where the people in charge cared about performance. It’s easy to get sub second speeds if you start with that goal.
I’ve also worked on projects where the people in charge added 1mb client-side mapping libraries to render a static map and ignored my push back. Those website were slow
This. The author talks about the fact that now they can try far more experimental optimizations than they could before. But they already had an architecture with efficiency in mind, and were trying optimizations, to begin with. The kind of company that ships web UIs that take 5-10s to do some action 1) don't care or aren't capable of good architecture 2) don't care or aren't capable of doing the simplest low-hanging optimizations.