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> Postgres in a browser?!?! I cannot wait for the novelty of this to wear off, because the wow factor of "do it, but in a brower" should have a worn off long-a
by pdntspa 4y ago
> Postgres in a browser?!?!
I cannot wait for the novelty of this to wear off, because the wow factor of "do it, but in a brower" should have a worn off long-ass time ago.
- capableweb 4y agoIn the spirit of hacking, I hope it doesn't. Running A on B when B wasn't intended to run on A definitely piques my interest. I'm continuously impressed by such things, like Doom running on calculators.
- pdntspa 4y agoI get that, but these are runtime platforms designed specifically to get general-purpose apps running in the browser. That is their sole reason for existence. Yes, WASM is awesome like that. But we've been messing with stuff like that since enscripten, if not earlier. Besides, postgres already runs on pretty much everything.
- bastawhiz 4y agoCould I brew install Postgres to play with some SQL and clean up after myself when I'm done? Yes. I could also just load this, perhaps in multiple tabs, and not think about it.
- pdntspa 4y agoI'd be impressed if they fit it into a dll with the databases as one file, a la SQLite Now that would be an achievement!
- hot_gril 4y agoThere are still a lot of things that can't be done in browsers but should be doable, so I'm ok with this. Like imagine that instead of having to make a native iPhone app for every little thing, which ironically is probably JS under React Native anyway, Apple supported most of those native features via the browser. Of course Apple has much more to lose than to gain from that. They deliberately don't even support push notifications in PWAs. Also, Postgres in browser is actually useful.