• Kuinox@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    This is exactly what the browsers have been doing for decades and why the developer experience with html/css is infuriating.

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      9 months ago

      Html/css/JavaScript is one of the most highly compatible and prolific stacks to ever exist. I like to say that JavaScript has succeeded where Java was trying to be.

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        9 months ago

        JavaScript, until recently, was literally the only option. It’s a nightmare of a language littered with bear traps and pitfalls.

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        9 months ago

        They didn’t succeeded because they were good, but because they were popular.
        Browser devtools are very inferior to java/.net devtools, except the network tab from the browser, only thing the language I gave as example lack.