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> Of course they are, the end game is browsers being the OS.

But could we please not do that? Can I do something to prevent this from happening?



Take a look at how Apple killed Flash: they made a product that people flocked to, that didn't support Flash. This put vendors that didn't use Flash at an advantage compared to those that did, which started a vicious cycle for Flash.

The same can be done with JS.


I don't want to get rid of JS entirely, I want to discourage building apps with it. I want it to be the macro language for hypertext like it was originally intended.




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