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> This is the ideal scenario for the evolution of the web: developers worked collectively over a series of years The ideal scenario is when you design somethin
by eviks 3y ago
> This is the ideal scenario for the evolution of the web: developers worked collectively over a series of years
The ideal scenario is when you design something well so that you don't need to waste a series of year of that collective work solving for the lack of design
- sfn42 3y agoThat's the unrealistic ideal.
- jauntywundrkind 3y agoBig Cathedral philosophy. Someone just build it right! Kick ass build big and make it excellent! Just trust that one gal and let them soar! Versus Bazaar mentality. It takes time. Let there be a competition of ideas. Figure out strengths and weaknesses over time. Adapt and keep building better. You see this soooo much in the anti-Wayland troll-camps. That the idea isn't fully sprung meeting every need in every way is a huge fault, is unforgivable. The slow integration of ideas has been going to slow, and the Wayland protocol folks have finally recently started admitting it; they have a point. But being an official protocol is not the be all end all. So much protocol development has been just one camp, then two camps. That organic spread has been so beautiful, has allowed both innovation & deliberation at the same time. But people expect a world of consumer software, where someone has made all the decisions and now we're there, and we live with it. The Cathedral and it's authority & singularness appeals to so many, is closest to the rest of the world & commercial software. But the Bazaar has many advantages, has a cautiousness & explorativeness that hopefully delivers, long term.