[jamii]

Come back when you can write a database in sql, or a browser in html. Hell, try writing a browser in javascript.

How much of what the average programmer does looks like implementing a programming language and how much is just throwing some UI over a CRUD database? Why insist that a tool is only worthwhile if it can do both? There is plenty of room for tools that just solve the kinds of problems that most people have and do it without requiring years of training.

The vast majority of knowledge workers still rely on tools like Excel and Labview even when they are grossly unsuited for the task at hand, because the alternatives we offer require far too much training.

No-one is going to take your emacs away, we're just trying to figure out what the other 99% of the population is going to use.

[mynegation]

> Hell, try writing a browser in javascript.

http://breach.cc/

[jamii]

Breach (sensibly) uses the chromium content api so it's like 99% C++.