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An OS? An exaggeration maybe, but only slight. The browser is pretty much its own environment already. It's been the case for decades. It can display text, proc
by mekoka 7y ago
An OS? An exaggeration maybe, but only slight. The browser is pretty much its own environment already. It's been the case for decades. It can display text, process a variety of media, and run programs (written in JavaScript). The main cause of frustration at this point is that, compared to other popular programmable environments (C, PHP, Python, node.js, etc), where some real focus is put into evolving the language along with a variety of primary development tools, people in charge of the browser's ecosystem seem to still be coming to terms with the programmable part of its identity.
All the dilly-dallying results in community efforts that pile on top of each other to create all this bloat that is carried from one tool to the next framework.