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Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative (ladybird.org)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago (2 children)

JavaScript was a mistake.

And it went downhill from there.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It was fine when it was contained to an actual web site instead of infecting desktop software too. To me, using JS for that purpose feels like using PHP to write a 3D video game.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

using PHP to write a 3D video game.

Somewhere, someone just had a really bad idea.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

It’s a general language (though primarily adopted by web as backend engine), so you can basically expect people already have had this idea.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Eh, scriptable content was probably fine.

Techbros going 'holy shit, we should make EVERYTHING a website!' was the curse that doomed us.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago

Pushing for bloated web apps instead of having optimized and perfectly functional websites was what killed it for me.