Notices by Colby Russell (colby@kosmos.social), page 2

@wizzwizz4 the whole point of what?

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"[This] is software design on the scale of decades: every detail is intended to promote software longevity and independent evolution. Many of the constraints are directly opposed to short-term efficiency. Unfortunately, people are fairly good at short-term design, and usually awful at long-term design. Most don’t think they need to design past the current release."

https://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypertext-driven

Most programmers have this short-term mindset and seem to think the Web is the same.

Let's be clear: the Web is not yet another SDK. For pages that don't rely on nonstandard APIs or the equivalent of UB, that they should continue to work is the general intent. It's the reason for the motto "don't break the Web".

This is not being communicated well enough, it seems.

We're not doing very well when it seems like most programmers seem to think of the Web as indistinguishable from other platform "targets" (in the parlance of typical dev toolchains).

A user on HN writes that they "wonder" whether something in a Show HN submission will still work on "browser from 20 years (or more) in the future".

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