Really? What was the point that Jonathan made that really swung it for you?
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Only if the switch is discontinuous. It is actually not that hard, given WASM etc, to envision a series of transformations that, for example, removes JS from the browser entirely. It only requires will.
just chewed his lip on “I don’t get why that’s hard” which translated “I don’t get it”
Once you remove JS from the browser, now the Web is no longer based on an error-prone slow programming language, so it's a lot more natural for people to choose higher-quality languages (as opposed to hacks on top of JS like TypeScript).
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Then once you have real programming languages, why do you have all this DOM stuff and wtf is CSS for anyway, just let peoples' code lay out the text, and get rid of all that junk.
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There will of course be common libraries for doing this, so that people don't have to write it themselves. But the difference is, when it's just user-level code doing the layout, you have the power to change it. When it is built into the browser, you do not, and instead
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I dont think that's the only thing that matters. Even if everything on the web would be exactly the same but somehow compiled to c++, the complete spec would still remain a nightmare.
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I am talking about removing large portions of the spec from existence.
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