Frontend’s Lost Decade and the Performance Inequality Gap

Alex Russell’s talk at JSNation 2025:

JavaScript has always been and will always be the slowest way to do anything on the web.

A funny thing to say at a conference whose name starts with “JavaScript” lol.

Keen insight here on buying cheap laptops for folks to use and test on:

When people can actually experience what their users are experiencing, rather than having a graph in front of them about how it's going, that seems to be pretty effective at changing the narrative.

“Spend a day on their device” is the new “Walk a mile in their shoes”!