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Because it's a good demonstration of how the Web is advancing by showing that this kind of thing is possible. It's also a good project to learn about both the

by bgirard 10y ago

Because it's a good demonstration of how the Web is advancing by showing that this kind of thing is possible. It's also a good project to learn about both the web and POSIX. Not that this kind of project is required when applying to job but it would seriously catch my attention when reviewing a candidate for any web or systems job. It's also top of hacker news so it's an excellent way to get your name out there.

prodigal_erik 10y ago
It's the JavaScript platform that's advancing, leaving the web behind. A browsix process might happen to use a web page to bootstrap but it can't be part of the web because it doesn't have a URL.
nilved 10y ago
> Because it's a good demonstration of how the Web is advancing by showing that this kind of thing is possible. This being possible is a glaring deficiency of the Web, and an example of how it is stalling the state of the art.
- thatcat 10y ago
  Would more possibilities slow down state of the art or speed it up?
  - nilved 10y ago
    There are many possible things you can do with a frying pan, but only a few of them are good ideas. The flexibility of the Web is a generally good thing, but often misused and often for inferior reinventions of the wheel like this. The amount of research time spent making Web browsers into feeble operating systems would have been better spent elsewhere.
the8472 10y ago
I wouldn't call this an advance. The web does not interact well with your host system. it creates its own silo. and this is just another step in the silo direction. why talk to the host at all? embrace the web! entrust all your files and software to us! you're emulating a filesystem inside the browser to manage files. while you have highly advanced filesystems sitting outside the browser with direct access to NVMe SSDs, much lower power consumption and all that. But nope, "do it in the browser" nullifies all the advances that native makes.
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by bgirard 10y ago

prodigal_erik 10y ago

It's the JavaScript platform that's advancing, leaving the web behind. A browsix process might happen to use a web page to bootstrap but it can't be part of the web because it doesn't have a URL.

nilved 10y ago

> Because it's a good demonstration of how the Web is advancing by showing that this kind of thing is possible. This being possible is a glaring deficiency of the Web, and an example of how it is stalling the state of the art.

thatcat 10y ago
Would more possibilities slow down state of the art or speed it up?
- nilved 10y ago
  There are many possible things you can do with a frying pan, but only a few of them are good ideas. The flexibility of the Web is a generally good thing, but often misused and often for inferior reinventions of the wheel like this. The amount of research time spent making Web browsers into feeble operating systems would have been better spent elsewhere.

the8472 10y ago

I wouldn't call this an advance. The web does not interact well with your host system. it creates its own silo. and this is just another step in the silo direction. why talk to the host at all? embrace the web! entrust all your files and software to us! you're emulating a filesystem inside the browser to manage files. while you have highly advanced filesystems sitting outside the browser with direct access to NVMe SSDs, much lower power consumption and all that. But nope, "do it in the browser" nullifies all the advances that native makes.

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