If you're writing an OS or a driver for the machines we have, whether it's C or Rust, pointers are unavoidable.
The entire web platform is insane. Even basic things--like versioning--or error reporting--were completely ignored. Semantic markup has been mostly abandoned. Accessibility has declined rather than improved. Something as basic as column layout shouldn't require an article that long, but it does.
The web is not insane. Trying to make application platform out of the document platform—that's insane.
But I agree 100% about accessibility. In the race to win the stupid war against the native apps all the good was thrown out of the window. Somehow this point is conveniently forgotten by those touting the superiority of the web tech for the apps.
edit: PS, not downvoting anyone here. Just curious as to how other people square html5+es5/6+css2/3 as anything more than an engineering failure and a major waste of human effort.
Having to put a considerable amount of reading, googling, continuing ed--or in some cases even a college degree--just to technically layout a page (technically--not getting into aesthetics, readability, flow, taste, etc.) is insane if you ask me.
Because in theory, you can build an application that will work on nearly every device in the world? Think phones, desktop computers, tablets, watches, tvs. With every conceivable operating system going back many years. And you don't have to install or update any software, worry about data loss, accessing the same data from multiple devices anywhere in the world.
Seems like there's a lot of good non-crazy reasons for the web to have taken this turn. Is it perfect? Nope, but it's pretty damn cool that I can login to a computer anywhere, put a point on a map, and have it show up on my phone, and I am privacy nut. :P
If we're getting into application development, we have a sandboxed VM that a) requires megabytes of npm/webpack/jquery/bootstrap mystery meat to paper over all of the cross-platform and form-factor potholes, and b) allows everyone and his brother to track your behavior in real time.
Go to practically any major content website and poke around in the developer console. Check the cookies, the constant ajax requests, the payloads, the file sizes, etc. It would be one thing if this were all for the sake of compensating creators and good user experience, but I don't see that. I see a dystopia where Google/Facebook/Amazon gets the sandwich, SV gets the crust, and everyone else gets the shaft.
There have been many browser forks where some heroic soul tries to strip a few of the more obvious f-yous out of Chromium or Firefox. They all eventually give up. When even the #3 company is blasting through half a billion dollars a year to put mr robot bullshit in their browser, any one-man effort in that direction will be drinking from the fire hose.
> "Gotcha" means "I understand you", its not an accusation or a condemnation.
It can also mean, roughly, «j’accuse»—or perhaps, “I have just proven the accusation against you”—so it can be ambiguous when context doesn’t make the intent clear.
So stating that modern web technologies were very badly done is moralizing?
This isn't physics or chemistry. We're talking about webshit here. Perhaps HTML/CSS back in the CERN days could be counted as technology. The rest of it--from the curly braces in JavaScript down to the --webkit/--moz prefixes in CSS--is pure politics!
Politically speaking, strict top-down control is typically not so great. With the IPv4+NAT+Client/Server model that we have, along with the browser standards and software being dominated by Google and Apple, strict top-down control is what we have.
Are you upset the technology isn't better? I am speaking from the end user perspective as well a developer. Maybe this is all second language context confusion.
The entire web platform is insane. Even basic things--like versioning--or error reporting--were completely ignored. Semantic markup has been mostly abandoned. Accessibility has declined rather than improved. Something as basic as column layout shouldn't require an article that long, but it does.