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Would turning that font rendering into a web service an accidental complexity, or an essential one?

• tomrod 5y ago
  Accidental, of course. There is never a need to introduce latency in text delivery, simply a long line of unmitigated wants.
  • trasz 5y ago
    Thai reduces a number of companies, eg Slack, to an “accidental complexity” then.
    • mcphage 5y ago
      Are you saying that you think Slack's primary challenge is font rendering?
      • trasz 5y ago
        No, it’s providing a web service to do something that would work (and used to work) much better without it. Their primary challenge is making money, and that part probably is better as a web service, but it makes it worse from technical point of view. Just like with hypothetical FaaS - worse technically, but you can have adds.
        • Zababa 5y ago
          I'll bite, what exactly worked much better than Slack without the web?
          • trasz 5y ago
            Pretty much anything, starting from IRC - it offered more functionality, from logging to scripting, but the general idea is the same.