@smith.adriane Was thinking of you as I listened to this Richard Feldman podcast — it’s about performance, but what really caught my attention is how difficult JavaScript is, but even worse, CSS. What got me bursting out loud laughing: • how difficult it is to float something left, without impacting other page elements • how it actually might be impossible to put two words on top of each other, without resorting to JS • We have a mental image of how uber-engineers like John Carmack and Steve Wozniak write incredibly performant code — but they probably couldn’t do complex things in CSS either • And the mental image programmers have that any junior designer can work magic with CSS is probably false • He bashes the W3(whatever) standard, saying understanding it is almost impossible, and it less like engineering, and more like complex case law — you have to understand all the laws, decades of precedents, etc. • There’s a part where Feldman describes building a home page for Roc, his programming language, and couldn’t get the live REPL to look identical on Chrome and Firefox. Out of frustration, he made Chrome correct, and Firefox incorrect, even though he uses Firefox. • Pretty flipping outrageous. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/things-web-devs-can-learn-from-game-devs-with-casey-muratori/id1602572955?i=1000637228476