• @Kuinox
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    188 months ago

    This is exactly what the browsers have been doing for decades and why the developer experience with html/css is infuriating.

    • @[email protected]
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      98 months ago

      It seems like a decent approach when you’re working with an existing tech stack and not some shiny new technology that has every sorted appropriately. At first I was like “just return an empty list of printers and let the user think there might be printers? Are you mad?” But than I was like “Well, that’s what I would do in an API as well”

    • @[email protected]
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      18 months ago

      Html/css/JavaScript is one of the most highly compatible and prolific stacks to ever exist. I like to say that JavaScript has succeeded where Java was trying to be.

      • @Kuinox
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        58 months ago

        They didn’t succeeded because they were good, but because they were popular.
        Browser devtools are very inferior to java/.net devtools, except the network tab from the browser, only thing the language I gave as example lack.

      • @[email protected]
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        48 months ago

        JavaScript, until recently, was literally the only option. It’s a nightmare of a language littered with bear traps and pitfalls.

  • @[email protected]
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    98 months ago

    I’ve seen far too manny error messages claiming I did something I most certainly didn’t do. This seems like a good way to make those far more prolific.

    • Fontasia
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      18 months ago

      Isn’t this better to understand about what the program is trying to do, which a user really only has a passing influence on