Why did HTML & CSS succeed? They are designed to be highly fault-tolerant. Resilience is key.https://twitter.com/teropa/status/1014380643692810240 …
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"If we want redundancy/fault tolerance/resilience, we should have it at the protocol level" < agree, even though it should be at all levels to some degree. Regarding resilient code, Erlang etc. seem interesting
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I am not sure that programming languages should autocorrect errors and ambiguities. In fact, that seems like a really bad idea to me.
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The reason why browsers were so fault tolerant was that the specs were so horrible that most code was incorrect on many levels. That did not make it resilient: to get it to work in all (no, most) browsers, you had to use enormous amounts of sneaky, brittle, intricate boilerplate.
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Agree, HTML was born from chaos not resilient design foresight. The underlying internet infrastructure though was invented to be highly resilient/failure tolerant (military system made to survive nuclear war). The underlying ethos might have influenced upwards the stack a bit?
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