Comment by ninetyninenine
5 days ago
I feel guis have taken a wrong turn. We need a simple composable language. I want entire theorems built from the least amount of axioms possible.
HTML and css is not it. The sheer complexity is what causes all the bs.
Show us the way!
Form a design team to reduce the amount of primitives in html such that I can do everything that html + css does but with the minimum amount of primitives.
Something tells me with that approach you'd get emergent complexity that different people handle in a different manner, eventually leading to strong incentive to add new, higher level primitives. That's one of driving forces behind current state of HTML and JS and why JQuery and TABLE layouts went out of fashion. Sounds like a people thing, not a technical one.
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