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> There are things it's optimal for but luckily we don't live in a world were people only do what things were originally meant for. I can write medical-imaging
by zeveb 10y ago
> There are things it's optimal for but luckily we don't live in a world were people only do what things were originally meant for.
I can write medical-imaging software in sed, because sed is Turing-complete, but if I did that I would be insane.
Using HTML, JavaScript and CSS for general-purpose software is only slightly saner.
- ThomPete 10y agoGeneral purpose software such as google maps?
- sime2009 10y agoThat's a ridiculous comparison. No one is developing desktop style applications using sed just because it is turing complete, and there ain't billions of people using this software running on sed. If the web was such a terrible application platform then it would not have been able to stomp the traditional desktop as much as it already has so far.
- gaius 10y agoOf course it would. Have you not been following the tech industry, let alone the entire world, at all? Bad ideas become wildly popular all the time...
- ThomPete 10y agoYour definition of bad ideas seems rather puritan. Not sure most agree on that.
- gaius 10y agoIt's OK the world is coming 'round; that's why it's all about native apps on phones, not browsers and mobile websites.
- ThomPete 10y agoThe reason why it's about native apps on phones is because they don't have access to many of the hardware improvements that are being added all the time. But quite a big part of those apps uses webview to render information in.
- PeCaN 10y agoIf sed was supported by every platform in the world, including mobile phones, instantly deployable, upgradable, and had a more-or-less functional UI library attached, you can bet your Macbook a hell of a lot of sed would be being written.