There's an *awful lot* of JavaScript that exists solely because the developer didn't know CSS well enough.
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Replying to @chriseppstein
There's a meme in the JS ecosystem that CSS is abominable and all its troubles would be fixed by making it a real boy. It's a strong meme.
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Replying to @wycats @chriseppstein
I'm glad you're pushing back against it, but omg the number of times ppl have cargo culted the claim that CSS would be better as a real PL.
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Replying to @wycats
I talked about this in my last conference talk. My feelings on it are nuanced ;) A Turing Complete css runtime would be bad for browsers.
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Replying to @chriseppstein @wycats
There are non-Turing-complete languages with more expressive power than CSS selectors. Datalog, for instance, might be nice.
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Replying to @arntzenius @wycats
lol the problem with CSS ain't that selectors aren't powerful enough.
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Replying to @chriseppstein @arntzenius
The primitives aren't rationalized well enough, and when they are they aren't exposed well enough.
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So composition becomes a game of russian roulette unless you memorized the spec.
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