> Believe it or not, not everyone in the world can afford the device and data
> plan for a JavaScript-rich web front end (I'm aware of the mobile apps). I
> remember only being able to buy an iPod Touch myself when it came out. I
> *would* be able to participate SE if it existed back then. Because email is
> so old and work well in offline environment.
I have full comprehension for those who want to keep their email workflow as it
is, but as it has been pointed out many times before: Discourse has support for
that… (and it's a little bit annoying to see many fans of email ignoring this
fact in their argumentation over and over).
So there are clear benefits associated with a switch, whereas the disadvantages
are more or less hypothetical and might as well be proven wrong by reality.
If such vague fear is enough to entrench the status quo, I'd really worry about
the impact of this mindset on future progress.
Telegraph and morse code are much more mature than even email, and more
reliable than this whole internet-thing, and there are marked pieces of clay
that exist for thousands of years and might still be readable when all our
modern digital data is forgotten, so progress is definitely not always
improvement in every aspect.
But to repeat it once more: In this case, moving to a more modern solution
keeps the old one intact.
- Tino
> I agree with email is and Swift is young. Not sure that's a real reason to
> ditch email, however 😀. In fact, I could say *because* email is so old,
> everything about it has become mature and reliable. Besides great, customized
> clients, it's also a lower requirement for participants.
The reason for the original statement is that I see many similarities to
Objective-C:
I know several people who oppose Swift very strongly, although the mature and
reliable Objective-C with its customised compilers and lower requirements
happily coexists with its successor.
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