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JS-everywhere ideologues are always trying to buy a hamburger today and pay for it tomorrow. Someday machines will be faster. Someday the implementation will on
by pifflesnort 14y ago
JS-everywhere ideologues are always trying to buy a hamburger today and pay for it tomorrow. Someday machines will be faster. Someday the implementation will on par with the alternatives.
How it works today is what matters to users. Tomorrow the native stack will just make use of more hardware features, it will still be faster, and we'll still be having the same conversation that we'be been having with JS ideologues for 10 years now. "Someday ..."
This is what the XML ideologues used to say too. The problem wasn't XML, it was the libraries, or the lack of dedicated XML processing hardware. Then someone realized that if you got rid of the core complexity -- XML -- you could stop layering on piles of additional complexity while trying to work around the root of the problem.
Someday...