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The internet in all its duct tape glory. Prime example of trade-off between cleanliness of implementation and backwards compatibility. As much as I like a pris

by ridaj 5y ago

The internet in all its duct tape glory. Prime example of trade-off between cleanliness of implementation and backwards compatibility. As much as I like a pristine, pure spec, the market winners are clear. It pays to keep product debt around.

keyraycheck 5y ago
If we could only deprecate features more aggressively, our code would be so much cleaner...
- afiori 5y ago
  flutter and Dart are essentially this applied to the DOM and JavaScript
- Gigachad 5y ago
  And then you get a HN thread linking to some 10 year old bugzilla thread about how firefox doesn't support non UTF-8/ASCII encoded websites.