I’m a modern developer and I see it as valuable. Why side with the browser teams and ignoring user feedback?
If “modern developers” actually spent time with it, they’d find it valuable. Modern developers are idiots if their constant cry is “just write it in JS”.
No idea what’s inaccurate about this. A billion dollar company that has no problem pivoting otherwise, can’t fund open technology “because budgets” is simply a lie.
I'm not personally in the business of maintaining a browser.
But if I were, and I were looking to decrease cost of maintenance, "This entire rendering framework that supports a 0.02% use case" would be an outlier for chopping-block consideration. Not all corner-case features match that combination of cost-to-maintain and adoption (after, what, decades at this point?).
We wouldn't be arguing the point if the feature in question were fax machine support, right?
Yes we would because people still use fax machines.
I don’t understand this “everything must be a business metric because it can, therefor if I can whittle any feature as a small minority, I am forever correct and just in destroying said technology. Look at smart and savvy I am.”
Agreed; as a technology, it's both clever and fun. I learned it right around the time I first touched functional programming in general and it was neat to see how you could build a chain of declarative rules to go from one document to another document.
Personally, I don't think we need a dedicated native-implemented browser engine for it. But in general I'm glad the tech exists.
If “modern developers” actually spent time with it, they’d find it valuable. Modern developers are idiots if their constant cry is “just write it in JS”.
No idea what’s inaccurate about this. A billion dollar company that has no problem pivoting otherwise, can’t fund open technology “because budgets” is simply a lie.