Largest Contentful Paint
Front end development is insane. Are there any other GUI implementations across any other industry (native, embedded etc) that has to implement this level of granularity and optimisation to make meaningful and responsive UIs?<p>As a developer I don’t want to have to optimise my code based on the first meaningful paint, I don’t want to have to piss around to optimise my code based on when the browser determines it needs to redraw and I don’t want to have to understand how a browser rendering engine works and why. Does nobody else realise this is insane levels of micro-optimisation? I used to think being a front end developer only was a silly role as the skills are easily learned. Now it’s so complicated, the top front end engineers should be getting paid the same salaries as senior backend.