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These are all great things, but the fact we can't take some well-tested, used-by-millions library from npm and start building on it makes things very confusing.
by gigel82 5y ago
These are all great things, but the fact we can't take some well-tested, used-by-millions library from npm and start building on it makes things very confusing.
It also makes skills non-transferable for the millions of web developers out there. Imagine hiring a SQL expert for your project that uses SQOL which is almost SQL but not quite, so everything they learn won't be useful in their future SQL jobs and the quirks / differences will make them pull their hair out and call it quits in short time.
It almost feels like building an entirely new language would be a better choice (maybe TSX+CSS, with no HTML) to reduce frustration if nothing else.
I appreciate the work you're doing on this project, as always.
- nine_k 5y agoI don't think it's as dramatic. Basic skills are very much transferable between e.g. Ruby and Python, despite a ton of differences. More narrowly, skills are transferable between ReactJS and React Native, despite a ton of component and CSS differences. Skills are transferable between Java-based and Kotlin-based Android development. So I'd say that a well-defined subset of web APIs, without strategically placed footguns, could be a quite okay target; if code is not directly reusable, it can be easily ported.
- tsimionescu 5y agoSQL is a particularly poor choice for your analogy, as there are no two dialects of SQL that are exactly alike, both in basic syntax and much more importantly in performance characteristics. And yet, knowledge of SQL is mostly transferrable between Oracle and Postgres, between MSSQL and SQLite and so on.
- c-smile 5y ago> we can't take some well-tested, used-by-millions library You can. Here is an example of Sciter application that uses RemarkableJS library (https://github.com/jonschlinkert/remarkable https://github.com/jonschlinkert/remarkable) as it is: https://quark.sciter.com/quark-application-samples/hello-markdown/ https://quark.sciter.com/quark-application-samples/hello-mar...