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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