El 2019-11-09 14:08, MARY-ANNE WOLF escribió: > If I wanted to write a game that people could play in their browser. > and I wanted people who were concerned about libre software and their > privacy to be able to play, what technology could I use?
Very nice contribution. Games are the best way for learning things. :-) Even though browsers are a very useful tool for distributing applications without the need to install them locally, they are also a risk for users to lose their freedom, since they can use nonfree software. And even if the software (JavaScript) is released as free software, it is not under their control because it is on the server, not on the client. So in summary, if your objective is to give users freedom, make free software which is easy to install on people's computers. This will achieve the objective of JavaScript of being easy to install and of freedom by being free software on giving the user freedom by being installed on the user's computer. This would also provido more privacy, if the data is not transmitted to other parties. To answer your question about which technology to use, it is very linked to the knowledge you have of computing. If you would have asked me about this a month ago, I would have answered Guile because it has a good integration with other languages which would bring it to avoid eventual death (like all technologies) or even Rust. But lately I have discovered that Guile is led by people who do not support the vision of freedom which has been able to sustain the possibility of freedom in the 21st century by these devs' intent to debunk Richard Stallman from GNU. I have heard Rust has its own downsides from the point of view of freedom. https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:main:rusts_freedom_flaws So I am not sided with any technology right now. All I know is that freedom needs us now more than ever that fascism has been able to divide the activists between them. We need to use and defend software which respects people's rights, whether this software has better quality and price (than the freedom attacking software) or it is of inferior quality and higher price. Good luck and thank you for helping us have a free future. Quiliro _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
