Migrating Dillo from GitHub
December 12, 2025
However, it has several problems that make it less suitable to develop Dillo anymore. The most annoying problem is that the frontend barely works without JavaScript, so we cannot open issues, pull requests, source code or CI logs in Dillo itself, despite them being mostly plain HTML, which I don’t think is acceptable. In the past, it used to gracefully degrade without enforcing JavaScript, but now it doesn’t. Additionally, the page is very resource hungry, which I don’t think is needed to render mostly static text.
Source: Migrating Dillo from GitHub
GitHub has been undertaking a long process of re-implementing their front-end using React. This is not the only story I’ve read where that turns out, perhaps not to have been the best decision. Many people have observed that with large repos, it becomes unworkably slow, even in state-of-the-art MacBook Pros.
This was eminently predictable and is one of the many reasons why I found myself, of late, pessimistic about the future of front-end as a vibrant, dynamic ecosystem.
