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In a world without (D)COM, I find it's much, much harder to make common base libraries and force people to use them, especially if you can't also force limit th
by p_l 5y ago
In a world without (D)COM, I find it's much, much harder to make common base libraries and force people to use them, especially if you can't also force limit the set of toolchains used in the environment.
- outside1234 5y agoThe network is the base library - that is the shift you are seeing. You make a call out to a network address with a specific protocol. Also, as an aside, I think WebAssembly has the potential to shift this back. In a world where libraries and programs are compiled to WebAssembly, it doesn't matter what their source language was, and as such, the client library based approach might swing back into vogue.
- p_l 5y agoWASM isn't a valid target for many languages, that's one thing. Two, the case is about the library to interact with the network, so... There's also implementing the protocols.
- jjtheblunt 5y ago> The network is the base library you remind me of the 20+ years ago Sun Microsystems assertion "The Network IS the Computer". citation: https://www.networkcomputing.com/cloud-infrastructure/network-computer-again https://www.networkcomputing.com/cloud-infrastructure/networ...
- rhizome 5y agoWell they did put the dot in dot-com.