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Peter Vivo • • Edited

I was checked my "hello world" "mmorpg poc" application written in NextJS ( react + BE ) memory footprint was 2.5Mb. That is still count as huge. But I think that is quite fine in our memory gobbler times.

===============================================================================
 Language            Files        Lines         Code     Comments       Blanks
===============================================================================
 CSS                     1            7            6            0            1
 JavaScript             18          517          456            3           58
 JSON                    6        22672        22672            0            0
 Sass                    6         1032          865           31          136
 SVG                     1            1            1            0            0
 TSX                    10          523          444            1           78
 TypeScript             18         1284         1106           13          165
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Markdown                5          440            0          321          119
 |- BASH                 1           31           24            1            6
 |- JavaScript           1            3            1            1            1
 |- JSX                  1           11            9            0            2
 |- TSX                  3           53           42            2            9
 (Total)                            538           76          325          137
===============================================================================
 Total                  65        26476        25550          369          557
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./server size is: 256kb.
./static (graphic files - maybe few unwanted still left): 1.3Mb

Worst part the node_modules lib: 350 MB.

This way of programming fare more distand from my Z80 assembly game code writtend around 1987 on Videoton TV Computer.

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Wade Zimmerman •

We could use far less code if browsers supported other languages besides JavaScript

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Peter Vivo •

Actually you can write any languages to browser compiled to WASM/JS/HTML. By the way if you create any JS/HTML application that is also need for compile to proper JS target, mainly ES5 for compatibility reason.

I think actual browsers is so complex application - with tons of unused API ( surprise ! ), any extra languages will be raise these complexity unnececcary.

const speak = sentence => speechSynthesis.speak(new SpeechSynthesisUtterance(sentence));
speak('What did you think about browser complexity?');
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The good question is:
Why don't able WASM reach these API endpoint and HTML page without any JS code?

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Maria 🍦 Marshmallow •

Thanks for sharing 🌈