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    14 days ago

    It intentionally doesn’t support JavaScript to make things faster and much less resource intensive.

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        13 days ago

        The stuff like Flash, Java applets and Silverlight it eventually replaced were arguably even worse. There’s a legitimate need to run client-side code at times, IMHO the mistake was making it so permissive by default. Blaming the language for the bad browser security model is kind of throwing away the baby with the bathwater.

        • trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          13 days ago

          WASM is a better way to run code client-side, and has the benefit of not being a terribly slow, untyped mess 😌

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            It desperately needs interface types if we ever hope to make it a serious contender for general purpose web development. The IO overhead of having to interface with JS to use any web API is itself pretty slow, and is limiting a lot of usecases.

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    14 days ago

    im a bit curious about the cjoice of gtk2 over 3 or 4, but im too eepy sleepy to look deeper rn ill do that later meows >w<