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Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS

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Re: Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS

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Post by timschumi »

It's unfortunate that he uploaded this without notable commit history, it would be interesting to see how long it takes a programmer of his caliber to bring up a project like this.

That said, judging by the license file this was based on QuickJS anyway, making it a moot comparison.

Re: Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS

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Post by alcover »

I wish for this new year we reboot the Web with a super light standard and accompanying ecosystem with

    - A small and efficient JS subset, HTML, CSS
    - A family of very simple browsers that do just that
    - A new Web that adheres to the above
That would make my year.

Re: Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS

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Post by stronglikedan »

alcover wrote: post #5

I wish for this new year we reboot the Web with a super light standard and accompanying ecosystem with - A small and efficient JS subset, HTML, CSS - A family of very simple browsers that do just that - A new Web that adheres to the above That would make my year.

I mean, you can do all that now, so that's not the problem. The problem would be convincing millions of people to switch, when 99.99999% of them couldn't care less.

Re: Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS

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Post by bArray »

booi wrote: post #4

If there were a software engineering hall of fame, I nominate Fabrice.

If there were some form of "developed contributions to computing" award, his name is definitely up there. I think there could be a need for such an award - for people who reliably have created the foundations of modern computing. Otherwise it's almost always things from an academic context, which can be a little too abstract.

Re: Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS

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Post by bArray »

alcover wrote: post #5

I wish for this new year we reboot the Web with a super light standard and accompanying ecosystem with - A small and efficient JS subset, HTML, CSS - A family of very simple browsers that do just that - A new Web that adheres to the above That would make my year.

And if you find you need more features than that - just build an app, don't make the web browser into some overly bloated app!

Re: Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS

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Post by mikepurvis »

bArray wrote: post #8
alcover wrote: post #5

I wish for this new year we reboot the Web with a super light standard and accompanying ecosystem with - A small and efficient JS subset, HTML, CSS - A family of very simple browsers that do just that - A new Web that adheres to the above That would make my year.

And if you find you need more features than that - just build an app, don't make the web browser into some overly bloated app!

But most "apps" are just webviews running overcomplicated websites in them, many of which are using all the crazy features that the GP post wants to strip out.
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