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Frontend’s Lost Decade and the Performance Inequality Gap

watch on portal.gitnation.org ↗https://portal.gitnation.org/contents/project-fugu-bringing-hardware-capabilities-to-the-web-safely
Talkat JSNation 2025 · on Thursday, 2025-06-12· at 10:45· [web-performance, frontend-architecture]

speaker

name:Alex Russell
website:https://infrequently.org

resources

video:https://portal.gitnation.org/contents/project-fugu-bringing-hardware-capabilities-to-the-web-safely
slides:none on file

summary

Examines how current web development practices—especially heavy JavaScript usage on the client—no longer match many users’ real devices and network conditions, creating an exclusionary “performance inequality” on the web. Uses concrete data about network and hardware realities to argue for rethinking frontend expectations and changing how web apps are built to restore broader access.

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