Comment by gjsman-1000

I saw an HN post recently where a classic HN commentator was angry that another person was using .NET Blazor for a frontend; with the mandatory 2MB~3MB WASM module download.

He responded by saying that he wasn’t a front-end developer, and to build the fancy lightweight frontend would be extremely demanding of him, so what’s the alternative? His customers find immensely more value in the product existing at all, than by its technical prowess. Doing more things decently well is better than doing few things perfectly.

Although, look around here - the world’s great tech stack would be shredded here because the images weren’t perfectly resized to pixel-perfect fit their frames, forcing the browser to resize the image, which is slower, and wastes CPU cycles every time, when it could have been only once server side, oh the humanity, think about how much ice you’ve melted on the polar ice caps with your carelessness.