Uphill

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 2 June 2015 at 09:18:27 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Jun 2015 11:10:09 +0000, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
>
>> But I think web browsers are slowly moving towards a situation 
>> where you
>> soon can make sensible games in webgl + asm.js using home-made 
>> engines
>> using "native javascript" (basically javascript targetting 
>> LLVM IR) or
>> pnacl (LLVM IR).  So the distinction between native and 
>> non-native is
>> getting blurred.
>
> this whole thing is complete disaster. instead of designing a 
> simple
> virtual machine with well-defined commands, they keep uglifying 
> already
> ugly js. this is so bad that i believe that we will live with 
> that for
> many years (really, i see that the worst technology with as 
> many ugliness
> one can stuff into it usually wins; that "web shit" is ugly 
> enough).

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