DEV Community

Discussion on: What is the future of CSS?

 
polterguy profile image
Thomas Hansen

Similar ideas is the reason why Hyperlambda is so blistering fast, because parsing only implies "forward operations", and nothing during parsing can change anything backwards in the file, which of course allows the parser to exclusively look forward ignoring everything it's already seen. Thank you for re-iterating that fact ...

Thread Thread
 
darkwiiplayer profile image
𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️

It's super easy:

  • list all your selectors with :has() somewhere in them
  • keep track of all elements that match the rest of the selector
  • follow the selector up to whatever ancestor (or descendant) the :has() applies to
  • keep track of these elements and only re-compute styles for changes inside them
  • spend another three to four decades fixing the countless bugs in your implementation, and the bugs you create by fixing those bugs, and the bugs resulting from optimisations of your previous bugfixes...

/s