It's the business that doesn't care about you, not the developers.

Considering that lots of developer blogs these days also employ some of those tricks, I wouldn't be so sure.

Safari has support for WebAssembly.

Twitch also appears to be using it, although I don't know what for.

"Install as app" works for any page.

Is the wording 'Install as app' on all pages on edge? Other browsers show 'Install as app' only for PWA and 'add to home screen' for normal websites.

Edge doesn't show 'Install as app' in address bar but if you go to menu > apps there will be 'Install this site as an app'. I'm using apps for Duolingo, Ventusky, Airly, Livescore, Plaza One, Poolside FM. I even tried to make an app for this website and it worked.

https://imgur.com/a/2OcJOfp

> There's some kind of brainwashing going on here.

Or perhaps it's because it is so commonly used.

This sort of comment is so tiring to see. There is an obvious difference.

Yep. I guess a lot of people don't realize how intrusive and prevalent Chinese surveillance and censorship is.

I am talking about propaganda. There is no difference here. Either country is trying to promote itself.

You can, you just need an X server set up on Windows, and the DISPLAY variable configured.

> original PG essay

Which essay is that? I'd be interested in reading it.

Thanks!

A minified JavaScript bundle is just slightly less obscure than a WebAssembly binary though.

Absolutely. I'm not railing against WASM. WASM just has better marketing and tooling than straight Javascript.

Putting a VM into our browsers, along with sufficient API support to make that VM useful, is what spells the eventual end of the document-based web. I think that future arrived a few years ago and it's just not evenly distributed yet.

>the eventual end of the document-based web

That sounds like the worst future possible. I love the fact that I can go to any web page and look at all of the HTML, CSS, JS (even if I need to use a tool to un-obfuscate it). Have you never wondered how someone did something and then looked at their code to find out how they did it? I love being able to use curl and wget to grab a web page. How would that work in a non document-based web? I really think this would be a terrible thing if it actually came to fruition. I truly hope I'm retired or dead before it occurs.

That's already an issue with minified JavaScript. Can we still call minified JavaScript "Web" ? What about non-minified JavaScript?

The TypeScript Handbook [0] is where I've learned the most from. The New Handbook [1] is starting to come together as well, it's not complete though.

[0]: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/basic-types.htm...

[1]: https://microsoft.github.io/TypeScript-New-Handbook/outline/

that's pretty good actually, thanks!