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That lot of people doesn't really matter. They prefer to complain than to embrace what the browsers offer today. They can even compile their favorite scripting
by Aldo_MX 12y ago
That lot of people doesn't really matter. They prefer to complain than to embrace what the browsers offer today.
They can even compile their favorite scripting language for asm.js, but there will always be excuses:
> But I want native GC
> But I want native Speed
> But I want native _________
They'd rather die waiting for the perfect conditions than getting things done.
- Rusky 12y agoThere is absolutely no reason they (I) can't complain about the effort going into browsers that could be going into a better solution, and still take advantage of the browser at the same time. If nobody complains about the status quo even when it's awesome, we'll never move out of the current local maximum.
- Aldo_MX 12y agoI'm not against complaining, but people often forget that the web is incrementally updating, today's web is different than 2014's web, and different than 2013's web, and absolutely different than 2003's web. The fact that there aren't perfect conditions today doesn't mean that the conditions won't improve tomorrow.
- TazeTSchnitzel 12y agoThere's tons of effort going into alternatives, but it has largely gone to waste because those alternatives lack adoption, and probably always will. Focus on what we have, not what we might have had if history had gone differently. Reinventing the wheel to fix minor issues is rarely worth the effort.
- Rusky 12y agoExperiments are rarely a waste of effort just because they don't turn into something bigger; Focus on what we can have, not what we might have had. Reinventing the wheel for "minor" issues (or just for fun!) is what gave us Linux, LLVM+Clang, Go/Rust/Nim/etc., Newton's laws, Relativity, etc. Incremental changes are not the only way, nor always the best way, to make progress.