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• shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Have a look at Gemini and the Gemini capsules. Seems more like what a browser should be, in my opinion.

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  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yep, try writing a Gemini client, I just did, it feels well.

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• chrash0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  i know i’m in the minority here so i’m not going to bury myself in this hole, but i do think those are addressable problems. many of them have been addressed. replacing Javascript is exactly what i’m talking about.

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  • stormdelay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Isn’t that what wasm kinda is?

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    • chrash0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      not really. using WASM as your full stack for your front end is just adding to the complexity and jank. WASM is there for compute heavy stuff. you can use it that way if you want.

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• chrash0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  there may be a little angst from reading and rereading the “Max-Age” portion of the cookie RFC that caused this trauma

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