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de_watcher on May 26, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Today’s Javascript, from an outsider’s perspective

> web developers have to deal with a layer of complexity that other programs don't have to

yep, other programs totally don't need to deal with different OS, graphics APIs, GPU driverstacks and hardware architectures.

exogen on May 26, 2020 [–]

Those are all runtime concerns. They don't affect the literal syntax that you write, as is the case with JavaScript. You can't feature-detect syntax. Instead your entire program will just fail to parse.

de_watcher on May 27, 2020 | [–]

So like shaders?

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