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by outside1234 1657 days ago
The network is the base library - that is the shift you are seeing. You make a call out to a network address with a specific protocol.

Also, as an aside, I think WebAssembly has the potential to shift this back. In a world where libraries and programs are compiled to WebAssembly, it doesn't matter what their source language was, and as such, the client library based approach might swing back into vogue.
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jjtheblunt 1657 days ago
> The network is the base library

you remind me of the 20+ years ago Sun Microsystems assertion "The Network IS the Computer".

citation: https://www.networkcomputing.com/cloud-infrastructure/networ...

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rhizome 1657 days ago
Well they did put the dot in dot-com.
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p_l 1657 days ago
WASM isn't a valid target for many languages, that's one thing.

Two, the case is about the library to interact with the network, so... There's also implementing the protocols.

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