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If you figure out how to build a cross-platform application distribution mechanism that is better than the modern web, please do let us know!

• TeMPOraL 8y ago
  I sure will. The challenge here is social. The Web has fist-mover advantage. Also, I fear that doing it the right way would be equivalent to forcing standardization on a single operating system (or a family of systems).
  • ManFromUranus 8y ago
    You would inevitably just end up re-implementing a shittier Web with less features and no adoption. A waste of time. In the best case scenario you implement something almost identical to the current web which is only slightly better, and therefore not worth moving the entire world over to your stack just to get these minor improvements.
  • Waterluvian 8y ago
    "Doing it the right way" is a fictitious concept in software development. You will have built a beautiful language/Web for today's needs, 10 years too late. And as the needs mutate you'll try to mutate with it, and that's how we get JavaScript.
  • dredmorbius 8y ago
    The Web has fist-mover advantage. Typo reveals essential truth.