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It's all a corollary of "good enough". It may cost sanity or rigor or beauty or clarity, but you can Make It Work anyway. The entire modern web application arc
by RGamma 3y ago
It's all a corollary of "good enough". It may cost sanity or rigor or beauty or clarity, but you can Make It Work anyway.
The entire modern web application architecture and development stack is a giant testament to that.
After all it is frankensteined to what was intended as a distribution architecture for hyperlinked, styled, mildly interactive documents.
W.r.t. web apps: Imagine there was a concerted, first principles effort to establish an architectural standard for cross-platform, network-insta-deployed, sandboxed applications. It may even reuse existing parts of web app tech, but apply them with clearer goal and scope.
Then there's questions of computational freedom and control...
- mikewarot 3y agoImagine there was no standard for electrical appliance outlets, no circuit breakers, etc, so every toaster wasn't automatically protected, etc.... That's the situation as I see it. We need Operating Systems that default to no access, and only explicitly make resources (like power in the above example) available when the user decides to do so.