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I thought the Unix philosophy was do one thing well: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy#Do_One_Thing_and_Do_It_Well https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_phi

by 38 3y ago

I thought the Unix philosophy was do one thing well: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy#Do_One_Thing_and_Do_It_Well https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy#Do_One_Thing_and_... how is running anything through a giant virtual machine (web browser) anywhere close to that? the browser is the monolith people. using a web browser to deliver an application is, always has been, and always will be the slowest, and most bloated way to do that. the benefit of course is, that the result is user friendly and cross platform. but lets not kid ourselves, this is as far from the unix ideals as you can get.

YoshiRulz 3y ago
It's probably referring to the Markdown to HTML translator library, an example of how Wasm enables Unix-style composition.
ngc6677 3y ago
see my comment in this thread about https://github.com/internet4000/find https://github.com/internet4000/find (for a summary); (web-)apps can be encapsultated, from the URI you access them, and the code that is served by the loaded page. It could also run client side only, local first (web apps manifest, service workers, sqlite/postgres wasm etc.)