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I'm not an expert on the web tech. so apologies in advance but wouldn't it be great if Mozilla spent all that money Google gives them on something more revoluti
by gerash 4y ago
I'm not an expert on the web tech. so apologies in advance but wouldn't it be great if Mozilla spent all that money Google gives them on something more revolutionary like a new runtime for ephemeral apps and the corresponding UI engine that's not bound to the legacy JS and HTML and has near native performance and access to hardware sensors? Add to that the support for multi device setups where you can move an app session easily from your phone to your desktop. There're so many cool things to do there.
Instead we're dealing with the "diversity" of the web (HTML,CSS,JS) engines and endless arguments around Manifest v3, etc. So many precious man hours are going to waste.
- 323 4y agoHTML/CSS/JS are the most superior UI engine that exists right now, especially when used through something like React/Vue/Svelte. So creating an even better one is quite a tall order.
- gerash 4y agoA non-profit with lots of talented devs like Mozilla is in a good position to do just that. I do understand it'd be at least a 5 year long effort by a talented team of 200 engineers but it's still better and more fun than iterating on Firefox.