| The biggest problem is Java Script. Netscape made huge mistake when they added that to their browser. If we wanted to download code on the fly it should have been a separate format from HTML. HTML is supposed to be a document. Sadly, that boat sailed decades ago. I really wish the standards committee would quit adding basically hacks to what was supposed to be a bunch documents. Then create a separate format more conducive to that goal. I suppose you could that creating a secure web context is kinda of way of doing that. Separating documents from more interactive content. However, freaking HTML is a horrible way to structure such a system. Also the CA is single point of failure. A MITM only affects the users along that routing path. CA failure can affect the entire web... I agree default is fine, but the user should be able to change those defaults. I could always compile a version for Firefox or Chromium that does. However, that's kinda ridiculous that I don't see any thing for instance in about:config Firefox. --Speaking of programing languages--
Honestly, I don't see any language succeeding that only allows code with run time checks running. It's why rust has the unsafe keyword. To override those checks. The reason there are lots of hardware devices where the data from said device will vary in size, and there is no way the compiler will know how all these devices work. The unsafe keyword allows Rust to be a system programming language. Heck even C requires you to revert to ASM at times for working with hardware. The generated code may not meet some strict requirements set by the hardware or you need to setup the environment so C code can run. Honestly, the biggest problem I see with programming languages is that too many of them try to be general purpose. Domain specific languages are great. If the language is designed well for the problem space it can lead to well written concise and understandable code. If your problem domain is working with hardware you need raw pointers, memory access and accurate timing. If you problem domain is altering images you probably want easy to use vector operations, handling of regions ect... |