Re:Ask HN: Why is everything in JavaScript changing so fast?
by Silhouette on Friday October 21, 2016 @03:16PM
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If the problem is discoverability/installation/security etc we could focus on app stores and sandboxes
To this day, I maintain that if Microsoft hadn't neglected that essential aspect of the Windows ecosystem for decades, they would probably still dominate the personal computing industry.
Re:Ask HN: Why is everything in JavaScript changing so fast?
by webmaven on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @01:39AM
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Uh...
Oh, you mean 'personal computing' in it's original sense, which encompasses mobile platforms as well, not just desktop computers.
Re:Ask HN: Why is everything in JavaScript changing so fast?
by Silhouette on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @06:07PM
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Right. IMHO, a lot of the reason that alternative devices, from smartphones to games consoles, took off was they solved the biggest long-standing headache for Windows users: they just wanted to get and use software to do things, not to worry about installing and configuring and updating that software or potential difficulties with removing it or how it interacted with other software.
Re:Ask HN: Why is everything in JavaScript changing so fast?
by webmaven on Monday October 24, 2016 @05:18AM
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> we could focus on app stores and sandboxes (which modern OSes also have both), instead of rewriting everything on the web.
Show me another way to write end-user applications that are cross platform, and then (if it existed prior to 1995, or even 2005) explain to me why your particular alternative didn't take over the world.
Heck, even standalone desktop and mobile apps are now being built with web technologies (react-native, Electron, etc.) rather than GUI frameworks like wxWidgets.
Not much of an argument. We already have 24/7 internet connected laptops, tablets and smartphones, which is were those browsers run in the first place anyway.
Perhaps we could, and I'm going on a limp here, just cut the middleman and run on the metal?
If the problem is discoverability/installation/security etc we could focus on app stores and sandboxes (which modern OSes also have both), instead of rewriting everything on the web.
>* But it often feels that y'all just want to complain about how we're doing things wrong, rather than actually helping.*
Well, you first stop someone from drowning and then you show them how to swim...