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I always thought NeWS was way ahead of its time. The modern web application stack looks a lot like what Gosling did in the 90s, but with PostScript replaced by

• marshray 13y ago
  I liked the part about "To support user interface widgets, NeWS expanded the original PostScript stack-based language into a complete object oriented (OO) programming style with inheritance."
• mhd 13y ago
  The good thing about that was that you could basically do everything in PostScript, in what way does that compare to the modern JavaScript/HTML/CSS+client/server mess? Never mind all the apparently necessary auxiliary languages (templates for HTML, preprocessors for CSS, transpilers for JavaScript). The closest thing would be something that does almost everything in JavaScript and would abstract the HTML/CSS underpinnings away, but that's certainly not the current approach to "proper" web design (ExtJS would come to mind). Honestly, I'd be hard-pressed to find any prior system with that many layers (VBScript?)...