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Daniel Kalny's GA144 projects' YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVMrX6BlNjIeGfX0QcBobGg

> 1. Is it possible to write complex, modern applications (things like browsers, photo editors, etc. — things that would take millions of lines of Java or JS) using this style of p…

> Portability is not important. Portability is not possible. Real applications are closely coupled to hardware. Change the platform and all the code changes. If it didn't, you woul…

"Over the Shoulder 1 - Text Preprocessing in Forth" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvrE2ZGe-rs - Sam Falvo demonstrates writing a blog engine in Forth.

Most languages that aim to be minimal bake in a minimal syntax, but without implicit parameter passing, composability is not going to be extensible.

> Anarchism is a political ideology that's never met the real world, like a lot of ideologies on HN and elsewhere. This might convince the random Internet reader, but it's not goin…

With all due respect I would have liked if the hackernews moderators had kept my original headline "An Anarchist Critique of Democracy by Moxie Marlinspike (Signal SMS), Windy Hart…

A smaller contact area between implementations means we need only be concerned about compatibility at that interface and the rest is up to you. This keeps the area of software that…

> Their programming interface is highly standardized across implementations. It may be easier to have everyone use the same software and hardware platform everywhere. After all we …

Sure you could port webkit to your new OS, but if all the software you use effectively exists only as web apps what would be the point?

The author didn't say "popular" he said "relevant" The current state of software development has huge issues with needless complexity resulting from poorly chosen abstractions. Gop…

The web is like an operating system that you are locked into using. This prevents alternative operating systems such as Plan 9 from ever becoming useful, because building a web bro…