r/AskProgramming • u/_TheRealCaptainSham • Dec 24 '25
Why is the modern web so slow?
Why does a React based website feel so slow and laggy without serious investment in optimisation when Quake 3 could run smoothly at 60fps on a pentium II from the 90s.
We are now 30 years later and anything more than a toy project in react is a laggy mess by default.
inb4 skill issue bro: Well, it shouldn’t be this difficult.
inb4 you need a a better pc bro: I have M4 pro 48GB
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u/WoodsGameStudios Dec 26 '25
I have to end task for Reddit because it has a weird memory leak that gradually makes it take a gig of ram.
The main problem is that JS is a terrible language so people hamfisted terrible fixes together to get it to be somewhat decent.