The Virtues of Simplicity

At its core, the classic web has a simple programing model. Your program draws the screen, then a user stares at it for a while, then maybe fills out a form or clicks a link, then they stare at the loading animation of their mouse cursor while you draw the whole screen again. It's never been the best experience but it does have one huge advantage: it's pretty darn easy to program and reason about.

This model is not dead. It has survived many shifts of paradigms. This talk is about why you might still want to use JavaScript to write programs of this kind and how to optimize them.