Dnia 2020-11-12, o godz. 10:20:10 Pierre Neidhardt <m...@ambrevar.xyz> napisał(a):
> Ryan Prior <ryanpr...@hey.com> writes: > > > On November 11, 2020, Jan Wielkiewicz > > <tona_kosmicznego_smie...@interia.pl> wrote: > >> [web browsers are] a really poorly designed copy of > >> operating systems and its utilities. > >> > >> [...] > >> > >> I just don't understand why in the web browser. > >> I'll try it. > > > > The web browser is the primary operating environment for a lot of > > people. Just as Emacs users built web browsers, terminal emulators, > > and mail clients on the Emacs platform, the web platform also has > > all those things (including various elaborate in-browser code > > editors.) So I understand this as having the exact same genesis as > > the Guix interface in Emacs: people would like to manage their > > operating system using the interface they spend most of their time > > in, and for Nyxt power users that would be their browser. I'm not > > at all interested in managing my Guix packages using Nyxt, which is > > highly correlated to my not being a Nyxt power user. > > Exactly :) I see. > To add to what Ryan said, Nyxt has a interesting design feature: it > does not need to depend on a web browser! If this is the case, then I have nothing against it. I just don't like when programs depend on things they don't need to, like a calculator app written in <insert JS framework> with 500MB of dependencies in node_modules and Chromium. This isn't a joke, this is the reality we're living in. > Nyxt is rather a > "Common Lisp interactive framework" and it would be perfectly possible > to implement a textual interface à-la Emacs. Of course, web page > rendering would be much more limited though. > > I'd like to work on a pure GTK (or <insert-your-fav-toolkit-here>) > version of Nyxt at some point. > Nice.
