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What really needs to die is JavaScript.
by supportengineer 1y ago
What really needs to die is JavaScript.
- yoz-y 1y agoFor that to happen imo: - browsers need to start supporting a better language (it could be typescript without backwards compatibility for things like var and function scoping) - browsers need to eventually provide a way to polyfill JavaScript - then JS can be removed without breaking content But for this to even be of any utility, there would need to be a WebUI framework developers are willing to use bundled with a browser (and properly versioned).
- supportengineer 1y agoI wonder if "browser" is even the right paradigm anymore. HTML, hypertext, in the 1990's, it was so elegant as long as you were doing only a GET. As soon as you get into dynamic content, the whole thing gets ugly fast. Not to mention users who now expect a "rich web experience" There's got to be a way to bring elegance back.
- yoz-y 1y agoI see the browser as the universal runtime. Which happens to also have okay hardware support (video, audio, etc).
- supportengineer 1y agoLet's go all the way and have it run bytecode, and allow for arbitrary protocols. No longer bound to HTTP. This was the original premise of Java Applets.