"nothing of the sort has yet emerged to balance out the JavaScript infestation"
Au contraire, nothing of the sort is needed. Just stop using JavaScript. I very rarely turn it on and I get by just fine.
If there is some content that we find the web developer will not deliver to you without engaging him in his JavaScript follies, then we must deconstruct his JavaScript monstrosity using another scripting language. Lua, e.g., is quite fast for this purpose. We can even do this within the kernel. The web developer who infests the web with his self-entertaining JavaScript makes us work harder to retrieve content. But every time he makes us work, we learn more, and we get better and better at piercing through the JavaScript and the indirection, to get to the content. We want content not JavaScript.
The question is not Will Web Developers Ever Learn?
Rather, the question is Will Web Users Ever Learn?
Au contraire, nothing of the sort is needed. Just stop using JavaScript. I very rarely turn it on and I get by just fine.
If there is some content that we find the web developer will not deliver to you without engaging him in his JavaScript follies, then we must deconstruct his JavaScript monstrosity using another scripting language. Lua, e.g., is quite fast for this purpose. We can even do this within the kernel. The web developer who infests the web with his self-entertaining JavaScript makes us work harder to retrieve content. But every time he makes us work, we learn more, and we get better and better at piercing through the JavaScript and the indirection, to get to the content. We want content not JavaScript.
The question is not Will Web Developers Ever Learn?
Rather, the question is Will Web Users Ever Learn?
And the answer is Yes, they will.