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> In a field that includes X Windows, you might want to reconsider "worst design imaginable". You can implement a XServer in only a few MiB, that runs on a pot
by still_grokking 4y ago
> In a field that includes X Windows, you might want to reconsider "worst design imaginable".
You can implement a XServer in only a few MiB, that runs on a potato (as seen form today). Compare that to current web browser.
> Yes, the web has grown complex beyond all reason and if you want to make a real state-of-the-art web app today you'll have to use an absurdly deep stack of tools. It's probably time to rethink things.
It's long over due. We should get lost of all this "layers of madness".
> No other system would have even been _able_ to evolve like HTML + JavaScript has done.
How can you know that?
The problem is only, the market takes always the cheapest solution that barely works. And you can't compete with "free" (like in beer).