Re:Modern Web 101: From Free Software Fetishism to Free Web
by endgame on Thursday October 20, 2016 @04:47AM
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Nothing you said is wrong, and I don't really like what the modern web has become. But I can't see how you'd build a better platform, then build something that drives adoption of that platform while there's so much dev attention on the web. Maybe it's possible, and maybe I just lack vision.
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Re:Modern Web 101: From Free Software Fetishism to Free Web
by aethertron on Thursday October 20, 2016 @04:59AM
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Consider that, to do a new thing, we don't need a cohesive platform that replaces the whole of the web. We can leverage the web, e.g. use it to distribute native applications, or scripts that run on some new interpreter.
I like the look of the Red language. The goal there is to make a more modern, open source version of Rebol, which has aspects that tried to directly compete with the web some years ago.
I suspect the successful modern version of a Red-based open, distributed app network and hypertext document system will have more of a symbiotic relationship with the existing web.