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Postel or Hyrum?
Postel. This is about me thinking it was a bad idea to make it work in the first place.
But reason people are making it compatible with old versions of browsers is part of Hyrum's law.
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#112I love how forgiving the web is. These days you can get strictness with typescript and the like, which is great for businesses and work. But the forgiving nature of html and css and even javascript has contributed to so much adoption. Plus grew one of the most important things in an platform the ecosystem itself. Seeing rust slow down with piles of crates and fall into the same issues, js and npm has, perhaps its not…
I don't love how forgiving the web is. We would all spend far less time debugging painful HTML/CSS/JS issues if the web was stricter. I think several billion man-hours would have been saved and human civilization probably more advanced. Also health-insurance costs would be reduced and web-developer lifespan likely increased thanks to less blood pressure. (Don't think the Rust analogy really holds. npm is worse than C…
Having worked on large web project and large swift macos projects, Ive spend about equal time learning the painful details and ins and outs of platform specific quirks and issues. The only difference is I guess that the web gives you the option of avoiding types. While in swift there is no opting out