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So you want many broken implementations with quirks of their own? (HTML5 + WHATWG's output). There needs to be a single dictator with a single standard. The pr
by harrytuttle 13y ago
So you want many broken implementations with quirks of their own? (HTML5 + WHATWG's output).
There needs to be a single dictator with a single standard. The problem so far is that the dictator and standard need to be hit with the clue stick man times before rather than pushing corporate features and agendas. POSIX, HTML5, Java are all design-by-committee crapfests.
Golang is about right on this. Once core standard and reference implementation which is opinionated and built by people who know their shit.
- planckscnst 13y agoAs I understood it, HTML5 was specifically about getting away from the design-by-committee mode that was causing problems in XHTML. It was a group of people that got together and said, "Okay, what are peole actually doing right now, that is what needs to be documented in the standard." They did not want a perscriptive standard, but rather, a descriptive one. Am I wrong about this?
- masklinn 13y agoYou're not. And it's not like they wanted a descriptive standard, it's that they knew a prescriptive one would not fly and would just be completely ignored due to the conflicting interests of the half-dozen actors. A standard everybody ignores is utterly pointless.
- coolsunglasses 13y agoGolang's stdlib is not the best example to use to back up your argument. It's a type-casted ugly hackfest that serves only to demonstrate the mis-design of the language itself.
- bsg75 13y agoExamples?