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Ask HN: An idea that you could not implement?
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#122One JavaScript framework to rule them all
Personally I would love for Swift to take over the place of JS.
Won't happen. If Apple added Swift as a sibling language alongside JavaScript, most people would still use JavaScript because of its wider support. If Apple replaced JavaScript by Swift, that would be suicide for their platform.
What, IMO, will happen is that WebAssembly will replace JavaScript, creating a level playing field for all languages. JavaScript will no longer be the only language you can on both server and client, so we will see all-Python, all-Javascript, all-Java, all-whatever frameworks in the browser (potentially each with its own GUI library, but I think that won't happen). All-Swift could be something that Apple could provide, and chances are they are already working on it.
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#123An augmented reality app that changes other people's appearances on the fly.
Actually, anything AR. I'm fascinated by it and I can see a ton of possibilities for it, I just can't afford to invest the time and money.
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#124I want to build a meta-layer that sits on top of basically every cloud platform be it dropbox or facebook. The best one sentence pitch I can come up with is "A dashboard for your online life" it should ideally do things like present all your storage as a single filesystem, present all your social networks as a single feed, and beyond that allow interactions between services like saving an image from your social netwo…
Sounds very similar to urbit or sandstorm. The key difference being the single filesystem and single feed which are not explicit features of either of the aforementioned products but could be created on them or might be planned.
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#125A couples' reading list. Step 1: My wife and I both download an app. Step 2: We link our accounts. Step 3: We each find and read articles in the app, Pocket-style. When done with an article, swipe right if I think my wife should read it. Swipe left if I don't want to pass it on. Step 4: Open the queue of articles that my wife thinks I should read. Read them. Swipe right if I want to chat about it with her. Swipe left…
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