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> As participation increases, quality declines, unless there are structural safeguards built into the system. Well, yeah, but that's a refutation of the entire
by tree_of_item 10y ago
> As participation increases, quality declines, unless there are structural safeguards built into the system.
Well, yeah, but that's a refutation of the entire web. Maybe we should go back to the days when only a chosen elite was able to distribute writing or software to a wide audience?
- BuuQu9hu 10y agoLet's be honest, Gopher was not that bad, and the Web is quite bad. That said, I'm not sure whether the Web can be replaced with something more desirable; a lot of folks like the Web's inability to protect folks from each other.
- izacus 10y agoWhat a strawman. Noone wants to go back to days of "chosen elite", but JS/Electron really really REALLY isn't the only simple way of building cross-platform apps. Don't make false comparisons. Cross platform desktop toolkits are usually SIMPLER to build apps in because they don't have the document-centric baggage of HTML/CSS/JS stack. People have been building cross-platform software since forever - heck, in 1980s you had to port your game/software on several different architectures and bedroom programmers (far from "chosen elite") regularly supported Ataris, Amigas, Commodores, PCs and other platforms.
- tree_of_item 10y ago> Cross platform desktop toolkits are usually SIMPLER to build apps in because they don't have the document-centric baggage of HTML/CSS/JS stack. Which one is simpler than Electron, in your opinion? Because it seems like a lot of people would like that sort of thing.