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marrs | 2 years ago

I forgot about those links. No, I didn't look at them. I've taken a quick look now. They seem to be about X and everything that's wrong with it, which is fine, but I don't see much about browsers, and that's what I was responding to your comment about.

My experience with making an app work consistently across browsers is that it's hard work. Making it also work consistently with each OS it runs on is considerably harder. You want to guess how many times I've been asked to even consider either of those two things by a manager, let alone make them a priority? Never.

And going by my experience as a user of browser-based software, I'd say that's pretty normal across the industry.

And that's to say nothing of the fact that these apps are typically slow, cumbersome (by which I mean they throttle my CPU and drain my laptop battery), and crash no less frequently than unsafe apps written in unsafe languages like C (despite the fact that that's supposed to be impossible).

It seems to me that you want to rewrite the world in the browser. That doesn't seem very different to me from rewriting the world in Wayland. Whatever the differences between the two, they are insignificant besides the fallacy of rewriting the world.

As for the rest of your reply, I have no idea why you think I owe you however much time it would take me to read however many links you posted above. If you have something relevant to say, say it in the thread. Don't presume to leave it for me as a homework assignment.

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