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0 pointscopperx9y ago0 comments

That's too easy. We all know that in the ideal world, platform-independent code would travel through the pipes instead of HTML/JS. That code "plug" into an existing architecture in the client side to provide some service or functionality transparently to the user.

Why don't we have that? mostly because of security concerns. That's why we can't have nice things.

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intrasight9y ago

Platform independent code would be no more insecure than the current scenario. In fact I'll claim that it would be more secure due to reduced attack surface area.

This HTML/JS/CSS scenario evolved. It wasn't designed. If you started with a clean slate and designed the front-end, would you have something completely different.

I'll make another claim that I'd be interested in hearing feedback from others. If IBM had allowed CMU to make the Andrew Window Manager FOSS in '88, we never would have gone down the HTML rabbit hole.

AgentME9y ago

Javascript is platform-independent code. If you mean something closer to assembly/machine code, then that's exactly what asm.js/WebAssembly is.

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