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Re:Mozilla plans '$25 smartphone' for emerging markets by CmonDev on Monday February 24, 2014 @10:08AM (#7291136)
I hope it doesn't work out. I would hate to live in a HTML-JS only future they are trying to build. And please don't tell me about transpilation, because it's crap.
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Re:Mozilla plans '$25 smartphone' for emerging markets by rubiquity on Monday February 24, 2014 @10:16AM (#7291190)
Yes, because an Objective-C or Java only future is so much brighter!
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Re:Mozilla plans '$25 smartphone' for emerging markets by CmonDev on Monday February 24, 2014 @10:59AM (#7291466)
That's not what I said. No single language future is better. Innovation thrives when you give people options.
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Re:Mozilla plans '$25 smartphone' for emerging markets by pekk on Monday February 24, 2014 @12:42PM (#7292135)
the web only provides Javascript, so locking us down to the web locks us down to Javascript
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Re:Mozilla plans '$25 smartphone' for emerging markets by mdwrigh2 on Monday February 24, 2014 @10:33AM (#7291295)
It's a good thing neither of those platforms support HTML and JS.
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Re:Mozilla plans '$25 smartphone' for emerging markets by camus2 on Monday February 24, 2014 @11:00AM (#7291468)
because neither Ios or Android have a web browser ! yeah...
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Re:Mozilla plans '$25 smartphone' for emerging markets by hiphopyo on Monday February 24, 2014 @01:03PM (#7292278)
Surely you mean "HTML-JS powered by your favorite backend" future right?
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Re:Mozilla plans '$25 smartphone' for emerging markets by _random_ on Monday February 24, 2014 @06:10PM (#7294044)
"non-optional language #1 - non-optional language #2 powered by your optional back-end (because we have no way of enforcing it)" - that's "Open Web" for you.
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