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Stop using Brave Browser (www.spacebar.news)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To anyone reading this article, only the first quarter of it is about the beliefs and political stance of the developers. The rest of the article after that goes into more technical reasons.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

All I needed to read was in the first paragraph.

Brave Software, the company behind the browser of the same name, was founded by Brendan Eich. He's best known as the creator of JavaScript from his days at Netscape Communications

I mean, JS is his baby that's all there needs to be said about the person's motivations.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

"JS is his baby that’s all there needs to be said about the person’s motivations."

"During these formative years of the Web, web pages could only be static, lacking the capability for dynamic behavior after the page was loaded in the browser. There was a desire in the flourishing web development scene to remove this limitation, so in 1995, Netscape decided to add a scripting language to Navigator. They pursued two routes to achieve this: collaborating with Sun Microsystems to embed the Java programming language, while also hiring Brendan Eich to embed the Scheme language."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript

I think you're confusing the reasons behind the initial intent of JS versus what it has evolved into almost 30 years later.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Imagine a world where Java integrated into the web was just as standard as JavaScript is now.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

we were really close.... I remember lots of placeholders for where Java applets were meant to be

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

During these formative years of the Web, web pages could only be static, lacking the capability for dynamic behavior after the page was loaded in the browser.

And it was better. Frankly, http was a mistake, humanity would be healthier and happier if we stopped at gopher.