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People just happen to carry their desktops on their pockets You mean they carry their portable UNIX servers in their pockets with them. Since they all come wit
by Annatar 10y ago
People just happen to carry their desktops on their pockets
You mean they carry their portable UNIX servers in their pockets with them. Since they all come with a web browser, there's your application's or your server's front end.
and use this thing called apps on them.
I have a few of those on my mobile UNIX server as well. Stupidest thing I've ever seen or used, "apps". What for, when they could have used a web browser to display their front ends, or could have ran on a backend server and just sent the display to the web browser? Most of those "apps" I use won't function without an InterNet uplink anyway... idiocy pur.
- pjmlp 10y agoIronically the web browser as application runtime doesn't have anything to do with UNIX, it can even be running bare metal. Which means the OS running on the server is equally irrelevant as long as it can serve pages, CSS and JavaScript. Which ad absurdum makes UNIX APIs irrelevant for cloud computing.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoAn example from high-assurance, security field to back up your claim: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/osdi10/tech/full_papers/Tang.pdf https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/osdi10/tech/full_papers...
- pjmlp 10y agoInteresting read, thanks.
- Annatar 10y agoIt's only ad absurdum if you're completely unaware of the fact that UNIX (in this case not GNU/Linux, but illumos / SmartOS) is a high performing operating system with extensive facilities for preemption and traceability, which makes it ideal for web applications, and at scale, too. Haven't heard of SmartOS yet, have you, since you claim UNIX unfit for cloud applications?