An unexpected revival of Firefox OS
The dream of an HTML-based operating system is nothing new, and in fact, something we have seen since the early 2000s. With the Internet exploding in popularity and complexity, it has always been tempting to think of browsers as convenient graphical renderers, and CSS as the ultimate markup language for
@freemo I’ve used it on an old HP pad. Cool shit! I haven’t tried Firefox OS, would like to though.
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@marathon0 It was a gun project
return to postscript (NeWS)
I can’t remember the details clearly, but was it NeXt OS that used postscript for the display UI?
Why does apple kill every language it gets its hand on... objecctive-c and ruby both could have been way more popular.
@freemo
I hear a lot about Ruby not scaling well in a networking role. At least one developer feels that way. Maybe just a personal thing?
@icedquinn
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When people say a language doesnt scale well what they really mean is that in order to get it to scale well they have to do too much work... which in ruby's case might be fair (its a matter of debate)... but no one language is good for everyone. I wouldnt use C as a language that scales well either out of the box
@freemo Oh for sure, just one tool in a developer's toolbox eh?! 🙂
@icedquinn
Right, well it might have been BeOS then. Whichever it was, it was silky smooth.
@icedquinn
Yeah my memory was correct, it was NeXt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_PostScript
@icedquinn
I really liked BeOS it was a fantastic desktop operating system.
@icedquinn
Think so, if you’re referring to Display Postscript.
@freemo
Interesting reference, hadn’t heard of it until now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS Kewl shit!
@freemo Cool! Is it available publicly on the web?
@marathon0 It used to be.. but it has long been dead now. This project was 23 years ago
@marathon0 I worked on one of the very first html based OS ever to exist commercially in 1998/1999, it was called WebOS. In fact even today I still work with its owner on new unrelated projects.