Uphill
weaselcat via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Jun 2 16:51:13 PDT 2015
On Tuesday, 2 June 2015 at 23:04:30 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On 06/02/2015 05:44 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>>
>> Thankfully mobile OSes and desktop app stores seem to be on
>> the right
>> track to kill this.
>>
>> http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2015/05/web_vs_native_l.html
>
> +1billion
>
> My god it's nice to see that finally acknowledged.
>
> "Still, we web developers have spent the last six years in
> denial. Our working assumption has been that all web sites
> should be app-like, and therefore tooled up to the hilt."
>
> Love it.
>
> Thing is, one of the biggest reasons (likely even THE biggest
> reason) for the giant "web for apps" push was the whole
> no-install aspect. But then instead of actually, y'know,
> creating a no-install for applications, which could have been
> made and well-entrenched by now, the whole tech sector went and
> blew (probably) billions in $ and time retrofitting "rich,
> dynamic experience" into a document platform. And for all those
> blown resources, it's STILL at least as much of a broken mess
> as it was back when we still thought the IE/Netscape divergence
> was the greatest damage we could ever inflict our unfortunate
> web-based users.
>
> And then on top of all that,
> Java/Flash/JS/basic-freaking-displaying-a-stupid-little-image
> demonstrated that even the whole purported "sandboxing" benefit
> of web apps (and VMs for that matter) was a near total bust.
I have to disable javascript on amazon.com to be able to use the
site or else it brings my browser to a crawl.
I, for one, am in favor of scrapping javascript and replacing it
with lua. At least it has a decent JIT implementation.
fun tidbit, back when the benchmark's game had luajit on it,
luajit's _interpreter_ would beat V8 in every single benchmark.
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