On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 08:41:39PM +0200, John Colvin wrote: > On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 16:35:46 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > >On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 05:30:28PM +0200, Rob T wrote: > >>On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 14:42:19 UTC, Gambler wrote: > >>>Every time I do, I get the urge to abandon programming and change > >>>my occupation. > >> > >>My thoughts too, The Internet is ripe for another revolution, but > >>the old ways need to be abandoned rather than continually propped up > >>with duct tape and thread. You can barely create simple applications > >>using current html+js tools, and Flash and so forth consume vast > >>amounts of memory and cpu power which can stress out even a full > >>blown desktop computer if you are a heavy browser user like I am, > >>yet most "personal computers" are now low powered mobile devices > >>which makes the situation really bad. > >> > >>IMO the current direction leads to a dead end. > >> > >>The big boys like Google, Mozilla and MS seem more interested in > >>fighting each other over world domination rather than come up with > >>viable alternatives that can lead the way out of this mess. > >[...] > > > >It's just like Nick Sabalausky always likes to rant about. In 1975, > >we had slow 8-bit computers with 8kHz CPUs and 64kB of RAM, and our > >applications ran rather slowly. Then processor speed increased > >exponentially, RAM increased exponentially, and today we have 64-bit > >computers with 4GHz CPUs (and multicore!) and who knows how many GBs > >of RAM, and our (web) applications run at about the same speed as in > >1975. Clearly, *something* is very, very wrong with this picture. > > > > > >T > > How do we fix it? We have a great language here, let's revolutionise > the web :p
Yeah! vibe.d FTW! :) And the client-side version thereof. :) T -- Bomb technician: If I'm running, try to keep up.