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How do you do, fellow web developers? A growing disconnect


How do you do, fellow web developers? A growing disconnect. | exotext

I had a "woah" moment once when one programmer got genuinely baffled about the fact that a website somehow "erases" the history of requests from the Network tab of Chrome DevTools. There are so many levels of rich abstractions on top of hardware and even the OS kernel, one can make some arguments to justify the obliviousness of someone who needs to develop a product feature in some web shop. "Pure JS", as well as abstract logic of resolution of non-trivial promises in TypeScript is such a niche, low-level concept, that it's treated as the science of computation.

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