A few years ago, the Chromium blog had an article about how it improved energy use by dehydrating parts of the JavaScript standard library from a snapshot instead of initializing it on demand. From what I remember, the snapshot was hundreds of megabytes.
Javascript by itself isn’t an issue. Many applications use javascript without issue
The problem is chromium and bloated graphical frameworks
A few years ago, the Chromium blog had an article about how it improved energy use by dehydrating parts of the JavaScript standard library from a snapshot instead of initializing it on demand. From what I remember, the snapshot was hundreds of megabytes.
ECMAScript, the core language is fine.
JavaScript—with the DOM APIs—is not.