This is modded "funny", but actually this would be very useful. Because you could send the browser along with your HTML and be done at once with all browser-compatibility problems. Plus you could make browsers supporting other languages (e.g., Python, Haskell, you name it).
Of course javascript would not be the appropriate target-language for this (I guess, due to efficiency issues), but the idea in itself is very interesting. A better target-language would be closer to the machine (no closures, and no garbage collection); the NaCl project might actually be a better candidate.
I'm betting that somewhere, somebody is already writing a browser in NaCl.
It's understandable that all those product-designer types also want to have some kind of IP protection, but can't they just go and play in some different playground?
As Apple's ecosystem is mostly a Walled Garden (tm, patent pending), I think it is only fair if they'd be forced to keep their pollution also within those walls.
And the silly thing is, most of those disdainful programmers don't know anything about solid state physics, the fundamental discipline that gives them the ability to run their programs in the first place. In other words, if you keep behaving like a nerd, you will still be considered a dweeb by others. Disclaimer: I don't know much about the subject, either.
While the examples this poster gives may seem too simple to be of much use in practice, the possibilities of using python are much greater, in the end, than learning some domain-specific language. Python has a much bigger ecosystem around it. For example, when you'd want to add a graphical user-interface, there are thousands of solutions to choose from.
Plus, but this is personal, I think it is really a shame that the developers of those domain-specific solutions actually thought they needed to develop their own programming language. That is just plain silly.
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iOS app development unprofitable to developers:
http://mobileorchard.com/iphone-app-sales-figures-32k-vs-535/
That's why you should have overclocked your battery too.
The law allows one to be a jerk. That doesn't necessarily mean you should be one.
Indeed, and carriers of course could already view and record text messages. They don't need an app for that.
Will this be the end of garbage collection?
What is the ethical problem here?
Google started indexing our webpages without asking (opt-out), so I think it is only fair.
The point is that google is funding parts of their company (google+, docs, you name it) by completely unrelated parts (search).
Those are unfair practices and are rightfully questioned and stopped by the EU.
So how many microseconds until the complete works of Shakespeare show up?
I'm just waiting for Amazon to sue Apple for copying their content-locked-to-tablet-like-device practices.
the effects of the financial crisis are beginning to show in the decreased lobbying power of big corporations.
Will one client be able to view the queries of its peers?
If yes, how is that an improvement?
If no, how does it work?
Facebook will simply solve this by presenting their users with an annoying popup that only goes away if you agree (opt-in) to the new EULA.
So there's not much significance to all of this.
Well, perhaps you missed this one:
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/18/1742222/study-says-quantum-wavefunction-is-a-real-physical-object
400k isn't really "everlasting"
400k ought to be enough for anybody.
Indeed, it would be way more cool if we would have a compiler back-end that targets javascript.
Indeed. What we need is a low-level language without garbage collection.
Difficult to program by humans.
Easy to target by a compiler back-end.
Give us that, and open-source will give us all the tools and libraries to bring webdevelopment to the next level.
Or, more likely, he was already institutionalized decades ago and was just looking for a nice project to spend his time on.
This is modded "funny", but actually this would be very useful. Because you could send the browser along with your HTML and be done at once with all browser-compatibility problems. Plus you could make browsers supporting other languages (e.g., Python, Haskell, you name it).
Of course javascript would not be the appropriate target-language for this (I guess, due to efficiency issues), but the idea in itself is very interesting. A better target-language would be closer to the machine (no closures, and no garbage collection); the NaCl project might actually be a better candidate.
I'm betting that somewhere, somebody is already writing a browser in NaCl.
It's understandable that all those product-designer types also want to have some kind of IP protection, but can't they just go and play in some different playground?
Mod parent up.
Carbon based life will probably just be a catalyst to bootstrap silicon based life.
Refactoring is "rewriting in steps", that is, keeping your code in a functioning state while you're rewriting it.
As Apple's ecosystem is mostly a Walled Garden (tm, patent pending), I think it is only fair if they'd be forced to keep their pollution also within those walls.
And the silly thing is, most of those disdainful programmers don't know anything about solid state physics, the fundamental discipline that gives them the ability to run their programs in the first place. In other words, if you keep behaving like a nerd, you will still be considered a dweeb by others. Disclaimer: I don't know much about the subject, either.
Mod parent up!
While the examples this poster gives may seem too simple to be of much use in practice, the possibilities of using python are much greater, in the end, than learning some domain-specific language. Python has a much bigger ecosystem around it. For example, when you'd want to add a graphical user-interface, there are thousands of solutions to choose from.
Plus, but this is personal, I think it is really a shame that the developers of those domain-specific solutions actually thought they needed to develop their own programming language. That is just plain silly.
The real problem the government is trying to solve is of course putting together the shredded pieces in such a way that suits them most :)
I guess that will be the next challenge.