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
@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.
@freemo I've used it on an old HP pad. Cool shit! I haven't tried Firefox OS, would like to though.
@marathon0 It was a gun project
I can't remember the details clearly, but was it NeXt OS that used postscript for the display UI?
@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
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?! 🙂