The beauty of loose dynamic typing

Fucking modern web dev piece of shit where you can't even ctrl+F among the big list to find what you were seeking. Guess at least it covers a decent breadth of styles.

Wear animal skin underwear

Tor is open source but nobody knows who runs the nodes

It's a distributed anonymous network. It wouldn't be very useful if we knew who was running the nodes.

Of course. I am saying mentioning its open source says nothing about whether some of the nodes are CIA operated, etc

>what chance do the rest of us have?

A huge and very easy opportunity. Current software is not just unoptimized, it is antioptimized to the neck. Any idiot could do far better than current "state of the art" if he is raised with prioritizing the correct things and understanding useless layers and crap for what it is.

That’s been true for a long time, though. A steady progression since the dawn of computing. If there really is a golden opportunity for somebody to sweep in with vastly faster software, why has nobody done this yet? (Or have they?)

>"quick execution"

I wonder where they are seeing this "quick execution". I for one am unable to see it as hard as I try to look.

>used extra blubber layers to simplify their life

"simplify" lmao

Or rather to create an artificial market and justify their pay. More deeply, it is a symptom of our economic system that forces to do such things for having a living.

Point is, most normal computer usage absolutely should NOT require a 10TB SSD and 256GB ram. It didn't for providing the same/more functionality a few years ago, why does it suddenly require these days?

Because a web-app is the only way you can monetize a desktop app like functionality in 2019.

Linux desktop toolkits and dev environment utterly sucks. You'll have to develop 3 different codebases for Win, Mac and Linux. Worse still, you'll have to reinvent app updates technology if you go with Qt or will be tied into a different updating technology and still have to deal with piracy problems.

Or you could go with web-apps:

-> Easy to develop code

-> Can't be pirated

-> In built model of regular payments

-> One codebase for all platforms

It's not even a close fight.

More importantly spending 99% of the time on self-inflicted non-problems that come with using the web as application platform. For example that anyone can open any url anytime...that alone leads to so many problems related to security (user isn't supposed to be able to see/edit/etc this part) and flow (this page shouldn't be visited before filling a form in this other page, and or if we randomly visit there it would error out crazy, what if user deletes their session, what if network is lost which can happen literally any time in the applications life etc) and then of course theres the matter of anything that would be a trip to ram/local hard disk becomes a networked trip to a distant server.