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You are a grumpy old systems programming guy. I kid, I kid! Call me a naive dreamer but I dream of a world where (almost) everything is done with web technolog
by adamwong246 12y ago
You are a grumpy old systems programming guy. I kid, I kid!
Call me a naive dreamer but I dream of a world where (almost) everything is done with web technologies. Why? Because I'm looking for an environment where applications, if not the underlying system, are written in a single, interpreted language.
There will always be a need for technologies that are very low-level (fast and efficient) or very high-level (experimental and AI) but I truly hope that the middle can start to converge on few reasonably good ideas. What languages can be feasibly replaced by js? I'm pretty sure the answer is, "Nearly everything except for C and assembly."
I like the web and I want my OS to be more like a browser.
- WorldWideWayne 12y agoMan, I don't think we could be more opposite because I dream of a world where the web completely disappears and all we have is the Internet and whatever OS I choose to use. The web, to me, is a hodge-podge of kludgy technologies that have too many gotchas. I like a pure environment where things are not so abstract that we cannot understand them. Instead of typing div, div, div, I want to type MenuBar, ToolBar, FluidGrid. Instead of fighting with Javascript to handle big numbers, dates or something as simple as equality properly, I like to use programming languages that haven't been ham-stringed because they've been designed by a committee. In short, I like the power, purity and robustness of my native OS and I want browsers to disappear entirely.
- adamwong246 12y agoTruly, web-technology is a rat's nest. But is non-web-technology really any better? And yeah, js stinks, but js can be made much more palatable. I'm pinning my hopes that purescript can make js not-terrible. purescript.org