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by nathanaldensr 4055 days ago
It would be wonderful if browsers acted more like game engines. Collect user input and at the beginning of every rendering "frame", allow JavaScript to process the input and modify a virtual DOM. Then, render the virtual DOM. It would be so much easier to reason about web applications this way.
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I'm messing around with ideas for an experimental hypertext engine, now you've got me tempted to try building it on a game engine. Looks like Unity might have halfway-decent text support.