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Regardless of the content, this is one of my most favourite talks ever, especially in the delivery aspect. It served me as an inspiration for quite some time when I had to present anything to a wide audience.
The problem is Wasm is not improving nearly as fast as predicted here. We don't have DOM manipulation so we will still need JS regardless as glue code, or just eschew HTML and CSS altogether and render everything on a canvas as Flutter and some Rust GUIs do but that's a shame to lose the feature set of the web.
People choosing Flutter would say the uniformity of a canvas across all browsers is more valuable than gaining the inconsistently implemented web feature set.
Almost everything happened according to the script. Now we are just waiting for another OS fully based on browser technology or WASM OS. webOS and Firefox OS was at least 20 years ahead of its time.
Is there a technical reason you don't mention ChromeOS? Just asking out of curiosity. Also, the screenshots I've seen of webOS makes me long for a revival... not only on smart TVs
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Is there a technical reason you don't mention ChromeOS? Just asking out of curiosity. Also, the screenshots I've seen of webOS makes me long for a revival... not only on smart TVs
Not the parent, but: ChromeOS isn't what I'd call a web-based OS. It supports Android apps, and that's how you get a lot of things that don't have web versions. Not much different from how Ubuntu can run Chrome and also supports native apps.
Surprised no one mentioned this is the guy who brought us this masterpiece. If you haven’t seen it, drop everything and watch it, best 5 minutes of your day guaranteed. https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
Almost everything happened according to the script. Now we are just waiting for another OS fully based on browser technology or WASM OS. webOS and Firefox OS was at least 20 years ahead of its time.
Is there a technical reason you don't mention ChromeOS? Just asking out of curiosity. Also, the screenshots I've seen of webOS makes me long for a revival... not only on smart TVs
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C syntax was never that great. It's basically mnemonic PDP-11 assembler with a few added data structures. js is mutant C with dementia - hacked together over over a fortnight, full of inconsistencies and weird corners. console.log(1 + "2"); // "12" console.log(1 - "2"); // -1 console.log(NaN === NaN); // false console.log(+0 === -0); // true const obj = {}; console.log(obj.foo); // undefined, not an error
NaN is a standardized dynamic languages datatype governed by IEEE 754, this is not something to complain about as its behavior is part of the official standard and for good reason, as outlined in the standard.
The problem is Wasm is not improving nearly as fast as predicted here. We don't have DOM manipulation so we will still need JS regardless as glue code, or just eschew HTML and CSS altogether and render everything on a canvas as Flutter and some Rust GUIs do but that's a shame to lose the feature set of the web.
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> but it's also the fastest way to support Mac, Windows, and Linux all at once. Flutter exists too, and supports iOS and Android in addition to the desktop OSes. The dev time is pretty fast too imo. That said, idk how the performance compares to Electron or Native apps. As a small team, optimizing for "actually getting the thing shipped" is so much better than optimizing for speed anyway.
Darts an amazing language too.
Google lost the opportunity to actually make it take off, had they replaced the Java stack with Dart, instead of staying in the Java world and adopt Kotlin.
However the Android team was never a great supporter from Dart in first place, hence why you won't find anything Dart on https://developer.android.com.