This is cool but man, it feels like we're pushing more and more complexity into the browser to build webpages that work like desktop apps.
Just reading "Chrome Speculation Rules API" makes my skin crawl a bit. We already have speculative CPU instructions, now we need to speculate which pages to preload in order to help mitigate the performance issues of loading megabytes of app in the browser?
I understand the benefits and maybe this is just me yelling at clouds, but it feels crazy coming from what the web used to be.
Just reading "Chrome Speculation Rules API" makes my skin crawl a bit. We already have speculative CPU instructions, now we need to speculate which pages to preload in order to help mitigate the performance issues of loading megabytes of app in the browser?
I understand the benefits and maybe this is just me yelling at clouds, but it feels crazy coming from what the web used to be.