<i>The fact that there isn&#x27;t a daily drumbeat about how bloated, how needlessly complex, how ridicuous most of the world&#x27;s web appliactions of today really are - baffles me</i><p>Well there is, or at least there used to be. The reason native apps in mobile became so popular is exactly because web sites are bloated. It might not matter in the PC but in a device running on batteries it matters a lot.<p>The real problem of web development is JavaScript. It’s a relic of the past that hasn’t caught up with times and we end up with half-assed hacks that don’t address the real problem. We need something faster and way more elegant.