On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 10:07:28PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > You have reinvented NeWS with Display PostScript > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS>. Don't get me wrong, it was a great > > idea, ahead of its time, and not especially well (or efficiently) > > implemented at the time, so it may well be ripe for reinvention. > > I think nowadays the idea is called HTML, where the display server is > called "web browser" and Javascript has replaced Display Postscript.
You're not wrong, in the sense that that covers a wide variety of use cases. There remains a niche for rich desktop GUIs that 1) can display remotely, 2) execute sandboxed code on the display server, and 3) play nice with a windowing system rather than being just a "page". I wouldn't be unhappy with that sandboxed code being JavaScript (or even WASM). I would be unhappy with every GUI app I use running a web server and launching a browser to http://localhost:<SomeRandomPort>/ > Stefan --Gregory
