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Horrible. We're going to end up with three separate languages: CSS, HTML, and Javascript, which will each be turing-complete programming languages with complete
by toomim 2y ago
Horrible. We're going to end up with three separate languages: CSS, HTML, and Javascript, which will each be turing-complete programming languages with completely-overlapping featuresets, and there will be no clear reason to use one over the other.
Browsers will have to implement support for three PL runtimes. Everything will be complicated and confused.
- xg15 2y agoEverything will be even more complicated and confused.
- someothherguyy 2y agoThe sky isn't falling, and nearly everything is trending better, not worse. You can use whatever features of browsers that you want.
- metadat 2y agoThere are tradeoffs. Further increasing the barrier to entry for new web browsers benefits the entrenched players and hurts end users by yielding fewer alternatives.
- porridgeraisin 2y agoThe entrenched are the ones deciding the features. This is their goal
- agosz 2y agoThat's what people say of C++ too. Too many features makes it harder to learn a language and ramp up on codebases; they'll have different standards on what they use.
- shiomiru 2y agoDevelopers can use whatever features they want, but users can only watch as their computer uses up more and more energy because it suddenly has to perform yet another build step that previously was done on the server.
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- mirekrusin 2y agoIs there DOOM in CSS already?
- panstromek 2y agoThere's a Wolfenstein https://css-tricks.com/hacking-css-animation-state-and-playback-time/ https://css-tricks.com/hacking-css-animation-state-and-playb...