Have been groggily writing up the deep reasons why CSS-in-JS (the sort with a "runtime") is unfixably slow led me to reflect on the warnings I gave the various over-Reactors who popularised this anti-pattern. Apparently at some point last night I wrote:
"Evangelical hubris laced with virulent incuriosity has been the calling card of the entire enterprise."
I don't think I'm going to remove it from the post.
@slightlyoff That's just all of technology now though isn't it. 🤪
(Nevertheless, please do carry on!)
@jaredwhite The cultural affinity (connection?) here is undeniable. @baldur has described "programming as pop culture", but it's also more than that; a wastrel agenda.
A shameless excess, an end-times nihilism made manifest.
@slightlyoff it is a very nice turn of phrase
@slightlyoff Over-Reactors is a keeper too :)
@slightlyoff sounds like a good intro for a future PerfNow talk 😁 (I had to use AI to fully understand what the sentence means)
Anyway, looking forward to your css-in-js post!
