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CSS now has an if() conditional function
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Re: CSS now has an if() conditional function
#112Next I want to run WASM inside CSS. W3C, please don’t disappoint.
Re: CSS now has an if() conditional function
#113Can it already vertically and horizontally center unknown-beforehand-length multi-line text in a single html element, just like non-CSS table cells could already in 1995?
width: fit-content;
margin: auto;
Re: CSS now has an if() conditional function
#114Give it enough time, every declarative language becomes a programming language. This is happening with all config files, markup languages, data formats. The distinction between code, config and data is being erased. Everything is a soup now. Data is application, configuration is code. Code is an intermediate, volatile thing that is generated on the fly and executed in the temporary lambda containers.
Conditional expressions are declarative. For example, every template language worth its salt has conditionals.
A programming (i.e Turing complete) language requires recursion or a construct of equal power.
Re: CSS now has an if() conditional function
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is so true, I have seen it happen with so many projects. It always starts with a cute declarative DSL, and inevitably imperative / flow control structures emerge, at which point you wonder why they didn't use a real programming language in the first place and save you the hassle or learning a half baked imperative DSL. - Puppet - CMake - Terraform - ... All these started with pure declarative DSL then incrementa…
- Visual Studio project files are XML files that are interpreted line by line, and can contain variables, branches, and loops. Hell on earth.
They are badly copied Ant build files.
Ant came first, then when Microsoft redid the VS project format, they created MSBuild.
As incredible as it may sound, Ant is still easier to deal with than MSBuild.
Re: CSS now has an if() conditional function
#116Give it enough time, every declarative language becomes a programming language. This is happening with all config files, markup languages, data formats. The distinction between code, config and data is being erased. Everything is a soup now. Data is application, configuration is code. Code is an intermediate, volatile thing that is generated on the fly and executed in the temporary lambda containers.
Unfortunely too many people are afraid of opening parentheses being posited on the far left instead of the middle of the text.
Re: CSS now has an if() conditional function
#117Give it enough time, every declarative language becomes a programming language. This is happening with all config files, markup languages, data formats. The distinction between code, config and data is being erased. Everything is a soup now. Data is application, configuration is code. Code is an intermediate, volatile thing that is generated on the fly and executed in the temporary lambda containers.
> every declarative language becomes a programming language.
Overly pessimistic, lots of non-programming languages remain non-programming languages. Just because one of the most widely used declarative languages start adding conditionals doesn't mean the whole world is turning upside down...
> The distinction between code, config and data is being erased.
As as lisp programmer, I love it. Get rid of treating things differently, make everything the same and make everything work with everything, code should just be data.
Re: CSS now has an if() conditional function
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
The primary goal is to just have a more concise way to do @media queries. Its not intended as a replacement for most uses of JS
If we've learned anything from the history of CSS, JS and the semantic web it is that 99% of the time a feature will be used in ways that were not intended. There is no reason to suppose that this will be any different.
You have to consider why, and the answer was often "there's no other way".
The paths of least resistance on the web are now very different. These features were not delayed due to implementation details, but a deliberate shepherding of the standards. The most powerful features were saved for later and even still this is scoped to media queries, etc. only.
Re: CSS now has an if() conditional function
#119Give it enough time, every declarative language becomes a programming language. This is happening with all config files, markup languages, data formats. The distinction between code, config and data is being erased. Everything is a soup now. Data is application, configuration is code. Code is an intermediate, volatile thing that is generated on the fly and executed in the temporary lambda containers.
Unfortunely too many people are afraid of opening parentheses being posited on the far left instead of the middle of the text.
It was shocking the first time I showed a lisp program to a (particularly "annoyed by everything") non-lisp developer who never apparently saw s-expressions before. Lots of knee-jerk reactions of "Oh my god so many parenthesis" and "How could anyone program like this?" while they sat there smug with their TypeScript codebase having more special characters, syntax and the same amount of parenthesizes, only because the opening parenthesis is one symbol to the left, instead of in the middle of the calls...
Re: CSS now has an if() conditional function
#120Give it enough time, every declarative language becomes a programming language. This is happening with all config files, markup languages, data formats. The distinction between code, config and data is being erased. Everything is a soup now. Data is application, configuration is code. Code is an intermediate, volatile thing that is generated on the fly and executed in the temporary lambda containers.
This is so true, I have seen it happen with so many projects. It always starts with a cute declarative DSL, and inevitably imperative / flow control structures emerge, at which point you wonder why they didn't use a real programming language in the first place and save you the hassle or learning a half baked imperative DSL. - Puppet - CMake - Terraform - ... All these started with pure declarative DSL then incrementa…
> All these started with pure declarative DSL then incrementally created a nightmarish imperative monstrosity.
"Huh?" I asked myself when you mentioned that Terraform is now imperative somehow. Took a look at the website again, and seems to still be HCL, and still be declarative. Am I missing something? How exactly is Terraform today a "imperative monstrosity"?