Is this some kind of dig against the web? I prefer native myself, but obviously there are huge numbers of faster websites out there.
The answer is that Google’s frameworks suck, and have for many years. I can’t comment on whether things are equally a mess in their proprietary code, but I don’t see any reason to think they’re not. This is a problem with Google, and their slide into mediocrity.
I love the web from the bottom of my heart. I love Javascript, I love Typescript, I love Angular. Develop once, run everywhere, no client side updating required. I love rest(ful) APIs. I consider working with Angular a joy. I am serious here.
I do like JS much more than most and have warmed up a lot to TS. I would echo most of this statement... except I think Angular is a dumpster fire that I'm more than happy to never touch again in my career.
I am simply aware that there is a very vocal amount of developers disgusted by Angular and in love with react. But coming from a Spring backend background, Angular 2+ felt just right to me. Meanwhile I hated react every time I tried.
Is this some kind of dig against the web? I prefer native myself, but obviously there are huge numbers of faster websites out there.
The parent isn't saying no one can do better. They're saying Google's engineers can't do better. It's sarcasm, but at the same time there could be a grain of truth to it - it would be unfair to believe Google's engineers aren't doing the best work they can. Most people do try their best. Perhaps it's actually fair to assume Google's engineers just aren't very capable when it comes to frontend dev work.
The answer is that Google’s frameworks suck, and have for many years. I can’t comment on whether things are equally a mess in their proprietary code, but I don’t see any reason to think they’re not. This is a problem with Google, and their slide into mediocrity.