alt Hacker NewsThe "modern web primitives" are also not even necessarily the "best practice".
Browser-specific implementation gotchas tend to take about a decade to iron out for reasons that never have anything to do with code quality. Users are fickle and so are browser vendors, but that's a different topic.
At the end of the day, there's just no escaping lots of manual testing across device and browser combinations if your goal is a polished result and not just something that "works".
AI has done nothing to make this problem go away. If anything, it's made it worse because people don't even want to look at the code now!
Exactly.
I've recently finished a browser game specifically targeting an old iPad Air 1 we had lying around the house.
I had a working version after a weekend, but it took me a month to make it run smoothly on an over 10 years old mobile device. And the most recent browser available is almost 10 years old.
Surprisingly I didn't missed too many "modern" JS features, as these were mostly functional programming oriented which doesn't play well with optimization anyways, and the ES6 was more than enough as a programming platform.
Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that "the best practice" should be making your apps fast and accessible - as much as you can without having to sacrifice something you value - instead of chasing the latest and shiniest.
Don't be a fashion driven developer. :)