I guess GitHub requires JavaScript now? 🤔 I spy an empty <react-app> 😬

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@zachleat <p>GitHub Works!</p>
@zachleat are they hipster snooty that their prior approach to web components is too cool now?
@zachleat WC advocates should really mourn this one — GH have quietly gone about their work for 10+ years with “unpopular” choices (pjax, rails, WC here and there as time went on) and unfortunately didn’t talk about it enough. It was a great example, and now it’s gone
@benschwarz Yeah, tech stacks come and go but this is a hard one. Kinda like when Twitter went full SPA: https://twitter.com/zachleat/status/1089952232748003328
@zachleat "We had a look at the state of the web in 2023, and we've opted for React with an IBM punchcard fallback."
@zachleat bruh have you seen the search umm app
@jgarber oh my