Comment by runarberg

17 hours ago

Probably not. There is a lot of optimizations browsers do to make the stylesheets super fast[1], and I think quite a few of those rely on CSS not being Turing complete.

1: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/08/inside-a-super-fast-css-en...

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Sesse__  11 hours ago

CSS is Turing complete :-) You can find pure-CSS implementations of Game of Life, for instance.

  • runarberg  2 hours ago

    The implementations I have seen rely on the inclusion of HTML form elements, and a manual step to update the state.

    So in that sense CSS + HTML + User Interaction is Turing complete. But that is a different language then CSS, even if a part of that language happens to be written in CSS.

  • cluckindan  4 hours ago

    I don’t think that’s true, unless you count hardcoding the state evolution into CSS variables, one var per cell per step.