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Can you explain how the blog post/other results people have on CSS being turing complete are wrong? Edit - would it be considered cheating to use: <meta http-e

• Dylan16807 3y ago
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  • buildbot 3y ago
    That seems needlessly rude to those people. Okay, refresh probably won’t help, but you can build logic gates in css, and css has for example, the ability to animate things forever: animation-iteration-count: infinite; Hypothesis - you can find a way to use animations and logic gates to build a very crappy cpu complete with program counter, and then use that to run arbitrary code.
    • Dylan16807 3y ago
      It's a bit rude, sure. If I'm trying to be gentler and more useful: I think some people are too excited to find Turing completeness, and don't really think through the necessary components and what you can and can't fudge before it doesn't count anymore. Many Turing machines are so barely functional to begin with that even slight reductions in capability will ruin their computational ability. As to your hypothesis, you'd need a way to have an animation conditionally turn other animations on and off each time it loops. I don't think anything like that exists in CSS.