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nsonha | 6 days ago

> CSS only exists becuase javascript failed to develop a styling component to displace it

there is no sortage of projects that do it (especially during the react era, people wanted to get rid of both html and css) but they get pushed down by dogma/inertia mostly. There was iOS constraint layout language ported to js. Seemed pretty cool, but the guy behind it decided to give up and everyone was like welp we tried, didn't work.

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notepad0x90|5 days ago

It sounds like the consistent pattern is the requirement for browsers to support it. If browsers supported intermediary languages instead, that might be ideal?

nsonha|4 days ago

browser is the new os. It should just have first class support for a common bytecode target (wasm), everything follows.

I think the issue with CSS was that the low level APIs wasn't exposed which was the point of project Houdini https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Houdini_API...