On Friday, 8 January 2016 at 04:10:58 UTC, Joakim wrote:
OK, not a full C competitor, but taking some of the higher-level work. I think D could take all of C's domain, Walter certainly knows how.
He has categorically refused to add volatile or VLA...
Yes, which is why many apps that are debuting now are native mobile-only, their devs can't be bothered with arcane and inefficient legacy platforms like the web. :)
Which ones? The only one I know of are either redundant or involves payment. Developing for mobile is maybe 8x more expensive than web...
You could always splice in the debug info if you're debugging, right? I saw some talk on their github about using DWARF or some other debug format: they're considering those tooling issues now.
Depends on browser vendors...
A scene graph jammed into an antiquated document layout, then stylesheet and scripting languages mashed on top: what could go wrong? :D
Uhm, not sure what you mean by that. Qt, cocoa etc are more old fashioned...
You also have WAI requirements... Required by law!
Complexity kills. Try searching the Chromium issue tracker for "painting" and see how many issues pop up:
I experience this once every two years. Usually fixed in less than a day.
I suggested something completely different in my post, chucking the web stack altogether and starting from scratch. The incremental approaches you suggest cannot really change much.
Did you provide a novel solution?
Sounds like you're joking, but I was surprised to find that the torrent client I ran on my Android tablet ran really fast, better than the one I tried on my laptop. There's a p2p wave coming, that will kill off most of this stupid cloud stuff, and take down the web stack with it.
You cannot rely on static IP address.
Let's see, I present arguments why it will happen, while you simply state that it cannot. Who is it that's thinking wishfully here? :)
Statistically unlikely when you reach critical mass. The web has more critical mass than any other IT infrastructure.
I'm not sure what you mean by the web going down that path, but I'm talking about not sending GUI info whatsoever, ie going back to something like plaintext email, where users simply send messages back and forth and the client figures out how to render it.
Wont happen as long as there are business opportunities in creating islands. Only works if open source destroy the market. Ref the web.
