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It is hard to imagine a tool less suited to working with multi-gigabyte data sets than JavaScript.
by dmitrygr 8y ago
It is hard to imagine a tool less suited to working with multi-gigabyte data sets than JavaScript.
- bloomer 8y agoYeah I'm really confused why working with 4GB+ datasets in the browser is a current need. Why does everything end up in web browsers these days? Is it only because developers aren't familiar with anything else?
- jholman 8y agoYou might similarly ask why app stores on iOS and Android are such a big deal, and why Steam is even a thing. It's because deployment is a harder problem than development (at least, it's harder for developers, because deployment is a social problem). The web is a pretty poor development target (though it keeps getting better), but it's a damn terrific deployment medium, and that's a winning tradeoff.
- denniskane 8y agoA truly web-browser-centric development/deployment workflow is slowly but surely becoming a thing. I call it "Linux on the Web": Easy as A-B-C / Or 1-2-3 / It's L-O-T-W ~dot~ X-Y-Z!
- fulafel 8y agoNon-browser programming platfomrs terrible portability stories when your app needs many features from the platform, like accelerated graphics, networking, security etc.