linuxontheweb

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Comment · 3 years ago

Yeah, I'm not sure if "partnerships" is what my project would be looking for either. I'm honestly curious on the purely conceptual level of how you think the corporate world might approach the concept of "very stateful" clients. FWIW, most of my interest is in enabling DIY/hobbyist and academic research use cases that would in fact want as much client-side statefulness as possible.

I guess I don't really understand the idea of macros extremely well. In your system, is it basically a function that's dynamically generated from the interface that is bound to a context-sensitive keyboard shortcut?

Comment · 3 years ago

Well, GNU/Linux, as such might not, but the various desktops that run atop it most certainly should care.

Re: ACK! THBBFT!: Just my personal ode to Bloom County which I feel must certainly be regarded as the greatest comic strip ever. (I need to wait for others to start coming on board with the project before I worry about doing things for any other reason than pure self-amusement.)

Comment · 3 years ago

As long as web applications are necessarily embedded inside of SCRIPT elements, which are themselves necessarily embedded inside of HTML elements, then documents will always have priority over applications.

Comment · 3 years ago

I don't see the "binaryification" of the web platform happening any time soon (if ever). The web is (and should remain) fundamentally about the transmission of documents. Javascript+DOM allows for the dynamic updating of said documents, and this is what the main thread (asynchronous event loop) is all about. For all "heavy lifting," the logic should go into worker threads, where there isn't any DOM access anyway. I think a decent rule of thumb is that WASM modules should generally only be used in these kinds of off-the-event-loop types of worker threads.

(See https://linuxontheweb.github.io/ for my implementation of a new kind of web application platform where these kinds of ideas can start becoming a reality.)

Comment · 3 years ago

> Tabs vs spaces, anyone? Vim vs Emacs? Maybe TS vs JS?

Tabs: Who needs all the extra bytes?

Vim: What. Even. Is. Emacs.

JS: 0 development toolchain dependencies are always the best number of development toolchain dependencies.

Comment · 3 years ago

I'd love to start working with anyone who wants to turn the web into a solid platform for application development with Linux on the Web. It has been over a decade in the making, and is starting to become quite stable. It is almost entirely written in Javascript. Try it online at https://linuxontheweb.github.io/. The github repo is https://github.com/linuxontheweb/linuxontheweb.github.io