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Email is one of the least broken communication protocols we have. Which says something.
Email it's the only free, distributed protocol we have at a large scale. I love that. 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.
This is absolutely a NIGHTMARE for new developers. People come into the language, and there are what seems like an infinite number of "the only right" ways to do something, all of vary degrees of complexity/usefulness, and all claiming that they are god's gift to computer science. That last part is the part that is most frustrating to me, and it isn't unique to javascript. Google, facebook, yahoo, etc. have all gotte…
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Email it's the only free, distributed protocol we have at a large scale. I love that. 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.
There is already encryption for email. It's called PGP and it works really well already.
There will always be platforms that are the Wild West, build-your-own-adventure decentralized toolkits and others that have a narrow political agenda and are more stable. Neither is better, it's just a question of what kind of frustration hurts you less.
While there's a lot of truth to this comic, I don't necessarily see it as a bad thing. I think it speaks to the flexibility of JavaScript. Sure, all of the tools and libraries can be hard to keep up with, but I'd rather have lots of community support than none. I have to admit, I was a JavaScript hater for a long time, up until recently when I actually spent time to learn the language. Now its quickly becoming one of…
So, you're saying you've become the guy with the hat. :-)
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Email is one of the least broken communication protocols we have. Which says something.
Email it's the only free, distributed protocol we have at a large scale. I love that. 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.
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X, Flash, Swing, JavaFX, SilverLight, AWT and more were all attempts to offer a GUI over TCP. The important question is why they all failed. This is a complex issue and many good essays have been written that address parts of the question. Still, I think most of it can be boiled down to 3 things: 1.) some were closed-source and proprietary 2.) some were needlessly verbose, or enforced a workflow that made it difficul…
One was killed by Apple.
i am _mostly_ backend developer by trade, so I can imagine half of the internets would be broken without JS on mobile and I can imagine that some problems would not be overcome-able , but as it is now it's like plugging desktop platform there - exactly as flash was
"Let's put a weak language on a billion screens and see what happens." The browser is Arrakis, and JS devs are the Fremen, hardened and shaped by an environment that is just barely survivable. Let us hope our own Golden Path is less painful than in Dune.
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X, Flash, Swing, JavaFX, SilverLight, AWT and more were all attempts to offer a GUI over TCP. The important question is why they all failed. This is a complex issue and many good essays have been written that address parts of the question. Still, I think most of it can be boiled down to 3 things: 1.) some were closed-source and proprietary 2.) some were needlessly verbose, or enforced a workflow that made it difficul…
Did X fail?