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They aren't "weird" design choices. Most of them are just plain bad design choices.

Desktop apps won't have a "comeback" for a lot of us. There have always been questions about the viability of these sorts of online services. So we did the smart thing, and never p…

Ubiquity should not be an excuse for the promotion of what is, by all objective measures, a rather poor programming language. This is especially true when it's an environment where…

I don't see why codereflection needs to spell it out. The problems with npm, and JavaScript in general, are quite apparent to anyone who has used them. And if you haven't used them…

What benefit does this approach bring? It reminds me of Chrome OS and Firefox OS. These all are based upon the Linux kernel, so they could potentially offer a very rich user experi…

I'd say it's even less capable. Shared hosting providers typically allow the use of Perl, Python, PHP, Tcl, Lua and sometimes other languages for CGI scripts. From what I can tell,…

Python 3 was never "in limbo". From the very start its goals were clear. Yes, it took some time to implement them, but this was done rather efficiently and quickly. Unless you were…

But it also doesn't offer many of the benefits and much of the functionality that Scala offers. A familiar C-like syntax, static typing, and so on are very important for a lot of S…

It's really absurd when people call Python 3 a "disaster". There was nothing disastrous about it. In fact, hindsight shows us that it was actually a very good path to take. Python …

Emotion is totally irrelevant here. I don't "hate" Firefox OS, nor do I "like" Firefox OS. It's just a tool, so I give it an objective, unemotional analysis. That analysis shows th…

The reality is that customers just don't want to use Firefox OS. Even with Amazon's support, it would still be very inferior in many ways to Android and iOS, and even to some of th…

These sorts of arguments or claims aren't very convincing, or don't appear to hold true in practice. The claim that the development of Firefox OS is somehow more "open" is very sus…

A large or well-known company merely using a programming language, and maybe even contributing back to it and its community, isn't the same as the company truly supporting or champ…

Is Rust CI really the best evidence to use in this case? When I last looked at it, probably 40% to 50% of the projects listed had builds that were in the "failing" or "error" statu…

When it comes to Rust, there's no stable version of the language at this point. There's no stable version of the standard libraries. There's no reliable production-grade compiler a…

What makes you so sure that there was ever only one memory leak? What makes you so sure that one or more new ones haven't been introduced since then? I've seen and heard a lot of r…

This is absurd. So rdxm is a "shill" merely because he or she pointed out some very real and important issues surrounding this sort of technology, and then also pointed out the fac…

Based on the comments here and those that appear under the article, people in general are not at all impressed by these ideas. I don't think the hatred is as universal as it is for…

I think your understanding of the history of computing is flawed. As somebody who lived through the events you mentioned as an adult working in industry, I can assure you that the …

Yes, Chrome on Android does appear to be broken in a similar way. I'm not sure about Safari on iOS, though. Regardless, two or even three of them being broken in the same way doesn…

Are you suggesting that the updates themselves never introduce new security flaws?

You make a very good point. That sensible and effective approach has become yet another victim of the failed quest to "improve the user experience" by throwing away or changing stu…

yarou obviously didn't say that they should focus everyone only on reducing Firefox's memory usage and performance problems. I'm not sure how you mistakenly got that impression, be…

It may just be a thought experiment at this point, but I think it's pretty clear now that all of the major browsers are unfortunately headed in this direction. This rush to target …