As someone who has been in Internet, e-commerce and the all around development of the web almost since its inception, this article makes me feel very, very old.
you know what eich also did?
he funded/staffed/managed/supported another language into life
the language that’s going to save computing for humanity
RUST
redemption arc complete
Well he’s also got some disagreeable political opinions, so I dunno about redemption.
The success of Rust can be laid at the feet of many people, but critically Graydon Hoare — He wrote an article a couple years ago about his stewardship, and it’s been something I go back to frequently. Just reading you get a sense of the immense intelligence, maturity, and sensitivity he possess, and imbued the project with.
I know what you mean, buddy. I remember when Netscape navigator was a new and amazing piece of software. All I’d ever used before that was NCSA Mosaic.
New feature: the <IMG> tag
Dude… I’ve used text-based internet. Long, long ago, when all you got was webpages in plain text.
Hello fellow Kermit, Gopher and Usenet veteran.
Alternate title:
In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that ruined the Internet
And native software.
Because JavaScript runs everywhere, we have companies creating “apps” and PC “programs” that are little more than glorified web views. There’s normally nothing wrong with having shared code across implementations, but when that shared code is a 4 MB bundle of crap that creates 100s of MB in dictionaries and JIT compiler caches, you’re ruining the end-user experience.
To be fair this happen because developing in web app is much easier and cheaper sometimes more secure than having to learn some esoteric framework and language around it. That doesn’t help with native software have limited UI framework in general compared to what we get with browsers.
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