Yes. It's so practical compared to old-school GUI development, and so it pulls you in and mushrooms into a scaling/integration/maintenance fiasco unless you can say "no no no!" to every non-essential feature. Things like Django, JQuery, HTML5 are app-level improvements but we're still asking too much of our feeble software infrastructure.
Step back, ask what we're trying to do with the web (decentralized computing?), and come up with a system that solves the basic UI/OS/protocol/language needs "once and for all". Implement it as a kludge on top of the web; use and refine; discard the web; discard the old OSes. It's a pretty tall order :-)
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"Web development sucks."
Yes. It's so practical compared to old-school GUI development, and so it pulls you in and mushrooms into a scaling/integration/maintenance fiasco unless you can say "no no no!" to every non-essential feature. Things like Django, JQuery, HTML5 are app-level improvements but we're still asking too much of our feeble software infrastructure.
Step back, ask what we're trying to do with the web (decentralized computing?), and come up with a system that solves the basic UI/OS/protocol/language needs "once and for all". Implement it as a kludge on top of the web; use and refine; discard the web; discard the old OSes. It's a pretty tall order :-)