D could catch this wave: web assembly

Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Jun 20 09:32:11 PDT 2015


On 06/20/2015 12:20 PM, ketmar wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 16:14:43 +0000, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
>
>> On Saturday, 20 June 2015 at 15:36:45 UTC, ketmar wrote:
>>> it was designed to ignore that fact altogether. html/css layouting is a
>>> pitiful attempt and barely usable. bwah, it can't even do normal
>>> constraints!
>>
>> Hmmm, what do you mean by normal constraints?
>
> google://cassowary
>
> that is a *real* constraint engine. what we have in css is a half-assed
> attemt to emulate the real engine without the engine itself.
>

I can see why people aren't familiar with that and it's approach: 
There's zero front-page examples, and any basic "examples 101", "how to 
use it" seem well-buried. Most people are gonna take one brief look and 
move on. It seems to really need some better PR.



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