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One wonders how we get out of this mess. You'd have thought that Microsoft/Google/Apple/whomever would have at least tried to include a better alternative language in their browser by now. What stops them besides inertia?
Humans are incredibly resourceful, if not also short-sighted.
Look at PHP, look at Javascript, look at Wordpress, look at email, look at the original jQuery etc...
"Where I am from, the point of digging is not freedom from digging."
Is it a statement that the point of digging is to reach further and learn more (positive)? Is it a statement more along the lines of "We dig because we must dig to survive." (negative)? Or possibly that digging is simply a way of life (negative)?
"Prototypal inheritance is pants-on-head stupid." Well, he's almost merely wrong, if he were to take out the "prototypal" part.
I learned a while ago that it doesn't matter how broken something is if everyone is using it. Humans are incredibly resourceful, if not also short-sighted. Look at PHP, look at Javascript, look at Wordpress, look at email, look at the original jQuery etc...
I learned a while ago that it doesn't matter how broken something is if everyone is using it. Humans are incredibly resourceful, if not also short-sighted. Look at PHP, look at Javascript, look at Wordpress, look at email, look at the original jQuery etc...
Email is one of the least broken communication protocols we have. Which says something.
But email is broken in many ways and adding basic requirements like encryption is still not possible on a large scale do to lock-in.
I learned a while ago that it doesn't matter how broken something is if everyone is using it. Humans are incredibly resourceful, if not also short-sighted. Look at PHP, look at Javascript, look at Wordpress, look at email, look at the original jQuery etc...
"Prototypal inheritance is pants-on-head stupid." Well, he's almost merely wrong, if he were to take out the "prototypal" part.
Prototypal inheritance works well, if you understand it. It's only "wrong" if you're of the Java/C++ OOP religion.
Someday we'll figure out that this is the problem with most features.