They aren't "weird" design choices. Most of them are just plain bad design choices.
Desktop apps won't have a "comeback" for a lot of us. There have always been questions about the viability of these sorts of online services. So we did the smart thing, and never put our data and apps at risk to begin…
Ubiquity should not be an excuse for the promotion of what is, by all objective measures, a rather poor programming language. This is especially true when it's an environment where there are numerous other languages…
I don't see why codereflection needs to spell it out. The problems with npm, and JavaScript in general, are quite apparent to anyone who has used them. And if you haven't used them, a quick search engine search will…
What benefit does this approach bring? It reminds me of Chrome OS and Firefox OS. These all are based upon the Linux kernel, so they could potentially offer a very rich user experience like so many more traditional…
I'd say it's even less capable. Shared hosting providers typically allow the use of Perl, Python, PHP, Tcl, Lua and sometimes other languages for CGI scripts. From what I can tell, this service limits you to Lua only.
Python 3 was never "in limbo". From the very start its goals were clear. Yes, it took some time to implement them, but this was done rather efficiently and quickly. Unless you were using one of a handful of libraries…
But it also doesn't offer many of the benefits and much of the functionality that Scala offers. A familiar C-like syntax, static typing, and so on are very important for a lot of Scala's users.
It's really absurd when people call Python 3 a "disaster". There was nothing disastrous about it. In fact, hindsight shows us that it was actually a very good path to take. Python 3 didn't negatively affect Python 2 or…
Emotion is totally irrelevant here. I don't "hate" Firefox OS, nor do I "like" Firefox OS. It's just a tool, so I give it an objective, unemotional analysis. That analysis shows that it lacks the features and…
The reality is that customers just don't want to use Firefox OS. Even with Amazon's support, it would still be very inferior in many ways to Android and iOS, and even to some of the other less-popular mobile OSes that…
These sorts of arguments or claims aren't very convincing, or don't appear to hold true in practice. The claim that the development of Firefox OS is somehow more "open" is very suspect. Even if the source code is…
A large or well-known company merely using a programming language, and maybe even contributing back to it and its community, isn't the same as the company truly supporting or championing it. What you describe is very…
Is Rust CI really the best evidence to use in this case? When I last looked at it, probably 40% to 50% of the projects listed had builds that were in the "failing" or "error" statuses. That indicates that one or more of…
When it comes to Rust, there's no stable version of the language at this point. There's no stable version of the standard libraries. There's no reliable production-grade compiler available. As the Rust home page itself…
What makes you so sure that there was ever only one memory leak? What makes you so sure that one or more new ones haven't been introduced since then? I've seen and heard a lot of reports from many different Firefox…
This is absurd. So rdxm is a "shill" merely because he or she pointed out some very real and important issues surrounding this sort of technology, and then also pointed out the fact that established players are best…
Based on the comments here and those that appear under the article, people in general are not at all impressed by these ideas. I don't think the hatred is as universal as it is for, say, Australis, but it's close enough…
I think your understanding of the history of computing is flawed. As somebody who lived through the events you mentioned as an adult working in industry, I can assure you that the sentiment you believe was felt was…
Yes, Chrome on Android does appear to be broken in a similar way. I'm not sure about Safari on iOS, though. Regardless, two or even three of them being broken in the same way doesn't mean that they aren't broken. The…
Are you suggesting that the updates themselves never introduce new security flaws?
You make a very good point. That sensible and effective approach has become yet another victim of the failed quest to "improve the user experience" by throwing away or changing stuff that was working perfectly fine…
yarou obviously didn't say that they should focus everyone only on reducing Firefox's memory usage and performance problems. I'm not sure how you mistakenly got that impression, because that's clearly not what that…
It may just be a thought experiment at this point, but I think it's pretty clear now that all of the major browsers are unfortunately headed in this direction. This rush to target "more simple Internet users" hasn't…
You do realize that the submission discussion doesn't have to pertain solely to what was in the linked to article, right? The topic is Firefox OS. Anything having to do with Firefox OS is worth discussing, and is…
They aren't "weird" design choices. Most of them are just plain bad design choices.
Desktop apps won't have a "comeback" for a lot of us. There have always been questions about the viability of these sorts of online services. So we did the smart thing, and never put our data and apps at risk to begin…
Ubiquity should not be an excuse for the promotion of what is, by all objective measures, a rather poor programming language. This is especially true when it's an environment where there are numerous other languages…
I don't see why codereflection needs to spell it out. The problems with npm, and JavaScript in general, are quite apparent to anyone who has used them. And if you haven't used them, a quick search engine search will…
What benefit does this approach bring? It reminds me of Chrome OS and Firefox OS. These all are based upon the Linux kernel, so they could potentially offer a very rich user experience like so many more traditional…
I'd say it's even less capable. Shared hosting providers typically allow the use of Perl, Python, PHP, Tcl, Lua and sometimes other languages for CGI scripts. From what I can tell, this service limits you to Lua only.
Python 3 was never "in limbo". From the very start its goals were clear. Yes, it took some time to implement them, but this was done rather efficiently and quickly. Unless you were using one of a handful of libraries…
But it also doesn't offer many of the benefits and much of the functionality that Scala offers. A familiar C-like syntax, static typing, and so on are very important for a lot of Scala's users.
It's really absurd when people call Python 3 a "disaster". There was nothing disastrous about it. In fact, hindsight shows us that it was actually a very good path to take. Python 3 didn't negatively affect Python 2 or…
Emotion is totally irrelevant here. I don't "hate" Firefox OS, nor do I "like" Firefox OS. It's just a tool, so I give it an objective, unemotional analysis. That analysis shows that it lacks the features and…
The reality is that customers just don't want to use Firefox OS. Even with Amazon's support, it would still be very inferior in many ways to Android and iOS, and even to some of the other less-popular mobile OSes that…
These sorts of arguments or claims aren't very convincing, or don't appear to hold true in practice. The claim that the development of Firefox OS is somehow more "open" is very suspect. Even if the source code is…
A large or well-known company merely using a programming language, and maybe even contributing back to it and its community, isn't the same as the company truly supporting or championing it. What you describe is very…
Is Rust CI really the best evidence to use in this case? When I last looked at it, probably 40% to 50% of the projects listed had builds that were in the "failing" or "error" statuses. That indicates that one or more of…
When it comes to Rust, there's no stable version of the language at this point. There's no stable version of the standard libraries. There's no reliable production-grade compiler available. As the Rust home page itself…
What makes you so sure that there was ever only one memory leak? What makes you so sure that one or more new ones haven't been introduced since then? I've seen and heard a lot of reports from many different Firefox…
This is absurd. So rdxm is a "shill" merely because he or she pointed out some very real and important issues surrounding this sort of technology, and then also pointed out the fact that established players are best…
Based on the comments here and those that appear under the article, people in general are not at all impressed by these ideas. I don't think the hatred is as universal as it is for, say, Australis, but it's close enough…
I think your understanding of the history of computing is flawed. As somebody who lived through the events you mentioned as an adult working in industry, I can assure you that the sentiment you believe was felt was…
Yes, Chrome on Android does appear to be broken in a similar way. I'm not sure about Safari on iOS, though. Regardless, two or even three of them being broken in the same way doesn't mean that they aren't broken. The…
Are you suggesting that the updates themselves never introduce new security flaws?
You make a very good point. That sensible and effective approach has become yet another victim of the failed quest to "improve the user experience" by throwing away or changing stuff that was working perfectly fine…
yarou obviously didn't say that they should focus everyone only on reducing Firefox's memory usage and performance problems. I'm not sure how you mistakenly got that impression, because that's clearly not what that…
It may just be a thought experiment at this point, but I think it's pretty clear now that all of the major browsers are unfortunately headed in this direction. This rush to target "more simple Internet users" hasn't…
You do realize that the submission discussion doesn't have to pertain solely to what was in the linked to article, right? The topic is Firefox OS. Anything having to do with Firefox OS is worth discussing, and is…