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jupityr notebooks provides something that is difficult to get else where: multiplayer interactive programming sessions. its also not overly heavy. Electron is

jupityr notebooks provides something that is difficult to get else where: multiplayer interactive programming sessions. its also not overly heavy. Electron is just half remembered dream of flash, but without the efficiency or programming environment. That compiled once and worked the same everywhere. We threw away flash because the iphone was underpowered, only for it to be replaced with the horror that is modern js centered webdev.

TeMPOraL 9y ago
> We threw away flash because the iphone was underpowered, only for it to be replaced with the horror that is modern js centered webdev. Also a sad thing: Flash sucked for building UIs, because it did not have a set of standardized elements and interactions built in. I'm thinking of all the trivial details like mouse pointer changing when you hover over a text field, or a text field that supports arrow navigation, selection, copying and pasting, a context menu, etc. Now the browser, as a runtime, has all those expected UI interactions built into all the standard HTML components. And what does the web crowd do? They throw it all away by building their own half-assed reimplementations of every UI element. There's lots of man-hours being wasted replicating the problems of Flash.