For the vast majority of projects it seems like the disadvantages of these highly complex RPC systems far exceed the benefits... Not just in terms of security but also the reduced observability compared to simple JSON..
The creators of Maa Ka Doodh, a famous documentary about the dairy industry in India have alleged that their channel has been deleted under false pretenses. [1]
Does YouTube really delete channels globally, even at a government's request?
I think you're at least partially right - not everything but a lot of data is not useful - wasting money, bandwidth, electricity, etc. There should be more dynamic controls over what gets logged/filtered at the client-side..
We're stuffed because of a broken economic system where these companies can get away without paying for the externality costs of damaging our environment.. If only "Conservative" politicians would actually care about conserving our environment!
And of course the costs do not affect everyone equally, especially in the short term - the people living in these areas tend to already be poor - like in Memphis were Musk's xAI seems to have turned on gas power without permits & controls.[0] Conveniently for xAI, Musk has also enthusiastically gutted the EPA.
I have a lot of admiration for the WSL1-style approaches & hope they bear fruit. The major problem with WSL2 & Android VMs is that they're a pain in an already virtualised environment - there's then a need for nested virtualisation.
I'm still happily using an 8GB M1 running Firefox in OSX + Firefox/VSCode/NodeJS in a Debian VM. Lots of tabs open. Both OSX and Debian can use compressed RAM.
Where are we going to get the additional electricity to power these virtual worlds in the short term? We're already in a climate emergency due to insufficient green energy to power existing demands...
There's actually an entire field called Effective Altruism [1] that's dedicated to researching which charities put donations to good use - and there are quite a few of them [2]
Also, overheads like executive bonuses don't _necessarily_ mean that the charity is ineffective [3]
Isn't this replacing the complexities of JS libraries like react/redux-saga with the complexities of these new server-side libraries..? Reduced bundle size looks like a big advantage & this will hopefully encourage the adoption of lighter front-end tech like preact/inferno/svelte. But the downside seems to be more resource consumption on the back-end, especially if using websockets, and so higher cost & more vulnerability to a DDOS? Also, what about offline support?