I’m specifically referring to Houdini stuff in this case. One dev may do same stuff different way(s)?
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I may be completely off & misunderstanding this whole thing tho so happy to be corrected!
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: happy to discuss at length. Basic insight is that we get X features per year. That's fixed. /cc
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: so question becomes, if we only get X per year, how should we "spend" them? What's most effective? /cc
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: my thesis is that we should spend those features in ways that give us confidence later. /cc
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: for instance, we derived the Web Components deliverables by looking at frameworks & experiments /cc
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: but in many areas we haven't had even that level of extensibility (see: layout/raster/composite) /cc
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: these are the areas where we have the *least* easily understandable evidence about what to add. /cc
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: see also: Gears/AppCache: we learned those high-level features badly designed at multi-year delay. /cc
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: so if we make mistakes in ways that take years to find out, we should hedge against that strongly. /cc
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: how? By delivering low-level features first and *then* learning from ecosystem to add high-level
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: we can use those same years to learn what the *right* high-level form looks like. /cc
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: meanwhile, we've enabled fundamentally new capabilities that allow the platform to compete. /cc
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