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Sure, but overwhelmingly "the web" is what people are interested in -- in a way, it's more of a default "operating system" than most operating systems.
by jrm4 3y ago
Sure, but overwhelmingly "the web" is what people are interested in -- in a way, it's more of a default "operating system" than most operating systems.
- paulddraper 3y agoRight, I'm suggesting that using multiple languages is not a mistake or idiosyncracy in the web platform.
- jrm4 3y agoBut it really is in practice? As in, if you could design "programming on the web" from the ground up, I'm going to guess you wouldn't base it on technology designed to make reading on the web a look little more like a newspaper plus hyperlinks, and then yet another language that sort of does the same thing but...more, and visually oriented -- before you even get to, and not strongly integrated with, real programming logic?
- paulddraper 3y agoIf my goal is a platform for both static documents and interactive applications... I would design it very similarly. Yes, there would be a lot of 20/20 hindsight improvements, fewer WTFs, but the overall structure would be similar. And you?