Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderWhen I was hired on the Watson team, the first thing they asked me to do was help improve performance of their AngularJS-based website. It was all-around slow, especially for the initial page view. I stripped out AngularJS and most of the other JavaScript, and published a website that was almost pure static HTML. It loaded very quickly. My manager thought it was hilarious - his "JavaScript expert" came in and deleted all of the JavaScript.
This gets posted once a month and everyone who dislikes JS is like YEAA but the reality is these are great for simple websites / apps but once your app starts getting more complex all of these components will start to need to do more things like on click interactions or interacting with other parts of the page or the backend and you'll end up porting it to JS anyway JS is a fine tool for making rich, interactive UIs…
Check out http://vanilla-js.com/ You might not need a web browser!
Previous, massive discussion from 6 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12690842
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 785
- Total comments
- 332
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-11 | You might not need JavaScript | andrewsomething | 7 | 1 |
| 2016-10-12 | You might not need JavaScriptFirst breakout · Best thread | MarkusWinand | 649 | 246 |
| 2022-10-16 | You might not need JavaScript | mooreds | 6 | 2 |
| 2022-10-27 | You might not need JavaScriptLatest 20+ point return | metadat | 123 | 83 |