A lot of people ask "why should I work in software development as opposed to math/physics/finance/etc.?" One reason is that this field is surprisingly full of "inadequate equilibria" (a steady-state in which low-hanging fruits are still available for non-experts to solve).https://twitter.com/b0rk/status/985224076758106112 …
What makes it hard & unrewarding is that, without huge amounts of work keeping up with growth in requirements/expectations, there's a high risk your better solution becomes irrelevant.
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I feel like that's what happened with every single attempt to do a new browser from scratch (as opposed to forking an existing one).
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There will never be a another successful browser from scratch. A browser in 2018 is one of, if not _the_ most complicated pieces of software on the planet with many moving parts and interactions. The work to gain critical mass will be obsolete by the time you have an MVP.
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That's largely the hostility/threat of bad growth that I was complaining/lamenting about. But if that's true the web is doomed to be an insecure, power-hungry, bloated hellscape... :(
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Considering that more and more of the web isn't written in HTML anymore but something that compiles to HTML or manipulates the DOM indirectly via a layer of javascript hidden by another layer of abstraction, maybe it's time to admit that we need a new standard.
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