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>Over the past ~25 years, a document delivery system has been perverted into a application delivery system. ...and a protocol for inter-object communication. T
by gambler 7y ago
>Over the past ~25 years, a document delivery system has been perverted into a application delivery system.
...and a protocol for inter-object communication. That's probably the most important part, because that's what creates most of the complexity and security holes today. There is no end to this in sight.
Alan Kay warned web developers about this in 1997:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY
Nobody listened. The majority of web devs still don't get it. (Can't wait for the arrogant replies here.) We ended up reinventing and re-implementing "internet objects" in the shittiest way possible.
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