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The long arc from "what came before" has periodically involved cleaning up old complexity. There have always been arguments about how simple is simple enough, b
by dvanduzer 11y ago
The long arc from "what came before" has periodically involved cleaning up old complexity. There have always been arguments about how simple is simple enough, but these systems weren't designed with complexity as a goal.
The web is a lot of things, but broad consumer adoption of web technology also involves boring things like banks. SOAP and WSDL weren't created in a vacuum. They exist because Java / XML made it even possible to bridge the gap from the old world.
- jessaustin 11y agoI don't know what "old world" you're talking about. When the web was first a thing, it was written in C and PHP and Perl. All the Java crap was layered on top later, temporarily, and unsatisfactorily. The enterprise repeatedly misunderstands what the internet is and how to use it, but that is the enterprise's problem, no one else's.
- dvanduzer 11y agoBanks. As much as we like all sorts of features of the web, integrating commerce was what brought the enterprise in, drove down costs, etc etc etc.