Re: Chromium on Pi2

On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 00:37:57 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

There is also the issue that many modern websites are running memory
gobbling Javascript implementations

Blame that on Google, for pioneering the “V8” JavaScript implementation
that greatly sped up its execution speed. Prior to that, JavaScript was
only good for adding limited interactivity to web pages. But suddenly, it
became feasible to add enough code to approach the full complexity of a
locally-running app -- and all entirely in the browser.

That massive leap in performance also led to JavaScript becoming usable
for back-end development, with nothing to do with browsers at all. Hence
the inception of NodeJS.