Well, Prism is likely to be with us for a decade, if not more, since Microsoft actually cares about backwards compatibility, whereas Apple much less so, and I guess, to them, we're at a "good enough" state. So Microsoft releasing it is less likely, but Apple could, especially after it is done. But I suspect some asshole sees a "competitive advantage" somewhere, and won't sign off a source release. What a gut punch for the team that worked on it.
Looking forward to a future look at Rosetta 2. Thanks!
Any equivalent look at Apple's Rosetta 2? Perhaps if author has time and availability of hardware, they can have a similar look. Rosetta 2 is going away next year, and it's a shame, even if from a purely technical reason. Apple will never open source it.
Given enough motivation, access control is irrelevant too. See early Windows "private" API that was used for decades and Microsoft supported despite being "private", because they knew it was being used and they (used to) care about their users.
No web-only solution will give you a fully satisfactory result. It's just not possible. If you scroll fast enough, you will see either flickering or empty zones.
Without synchronous view layout, it's not really possible to have a truly recycling view without many warts. We've (Wix) been hacking at this for years, and it's not possible. You either block the UI or view flash for the user if fast enough scrolling is performed.
Facebook engineering promised synchronous layout will come at some point, which will open the door to that.
> funding to push worldviews. The latter worries me a lot.
This is already happening in the advertisement world of today, where certain topics—some political but some not—are not "friendly to advertising", and so get demonetized on various platforms. How is that different from the scenario you worry so much about?