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> More seriously ... can someone explain the point of this? According to RMS, a hacker is "someone who enjoys playful cleverness, especially in programming but
by blendergeek 5y ago
> More seriously ... can someone explain the point of this?
According to RMS, a hacker is "someone who enjoys playful cleverness, especially in programming but other media are also possible."
This seems to me a perfect example of the Hacker ethos. There isn't a real point (that I see) except to have some fun. For the record, I have daydreamed of porting a kernel to WebAssembly, however, I have not (yet) "perfected my skills as a programmer".
I don't think there needs to be a "point" to all programming projects for everybody.
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoYou're right, I should not have asked about the point of it. What I really meant was: what can you learn by doing this? If the goals are as they are stated in the doc, what's the motivation for trying in a browser context? TFA doesn't say "I was just feeling playful", it lays out some goals and some rationale for them. I just don't understand why, given those goals, you would try to do this in a browswer. Screwing around with kernels is fun, because of all the stuff that can happen (and that you can learn). I'm having a hard time seeing how this would be the case here. I'm probably just blind.
- cerved 5y agoto learn about web assembly?
- emmaLe 5y agoTrue, but I feel like a lot of people make things in web assembly so that when it's finished, it can be put up as a website to show off in their portfolio in an accessible way. And I also feel like that makes is less pure in the hacker way. A lot of toy projects today are being built with showing off to employers in mind.
- gummy_bears 5y agoGood point but half a decade seems a bit to long for it to be just a ploy to show off to employers.