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> without paying a company a %-age of the revenue It may not be a %-age of revenue, but you definitely can't host a non-trivial webapp for free either. You co
by schmichael 10y ago
> without paying a company a %-age of the revenue
It may not be a %-age of revenue, but you definitely can't host a non-trivial webapp for free either.
You could even argue that in many webapps scaling costs are proportional to revenue, which makes it awfully similar to an app store.
> But also I think there's a false dichotomy between "the Web should just be for documents" and "the Web should just be for apps."
Yeah, I don't have a clear idea on where the web should "end", but wow... web pages able to eat all my cores and have data races seems like a line to be crossed with great caution and care.
- btown 10y ago> web pages able to eat all my cores We're already there: var code = "while(true){}"; var Blob = window.Blob; var URL = window.webkitURL || window.URL; var bb = new Blob([code], {type : 'text/javascript'}); code = URL.createObjectURL(bb); for (var i = 0; i < 8; i += 1) new Worker(code);
- pcwalton 10y ago> Yeah, I don't have a clear idea on where the web should "end", but wow... web pages able to eat all my cores and have data races seems like a line to be crossed with great caution and care. We crossed that line long ago (well, not precisely with data races, but with message/event ordering races...)