Whilst I am in favour of the optimisation of resources (and use these sources) we are willingly moving the "View Source" model to for profit entities like github.
In the way the internet has evolved we really should look hard it the elephant in the room: the DOM is for documents - not for interfaces.
IMHO optimisation for javascript is just a short term fad (hopefully) and browsers will adopt a more open approach to interface building. This should lead to "View source" on an open standard for interface building - which I think React comes close to. I know there are projects around that attempt this, but I am not aware of any real successes - at least in the same way React has grown.
The elegance of HTML has been superseded now, because interfaces are rich and packed with features. The DOM design is lacking and slow because of legacy support.
If the whole community effort was spent creating a better UI/UX standard (a standard web front end) - compilers would have no business case and i'm not sure they ever should.
In the way the internet has evolved we really should look hard it the elephant in the room: the DOM is for documents - not for interfaces.
IMHO optimisation for javascript is just a short term fad (hopefully) and browsers will adopt a more open approach to interface building. This should lead to "View source" on an open standard for interface building - which I think React comes close to. I know there are projects around that attempt this, but I am not aware of any real successes - at least in the same way React has grown.
The elegance of HTML has been superseded now, because interfaces are rich and packed with features. The DOM design is lacking and slow because of legacy support.
If the whole community effort was spent creating a better UI/UX standard (a standard web front end) - compilers would have no business case and i'm not sure they ever should.