The JavaScript Trap(gnu.org)
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The JavaScript Trap
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html
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While it might feel like a trap for some users, relying on "non-free" software (in other words, most software) is a trap the vast majority of users are happy to get into. They would prefer to have modern websites with fairly advanced stuff, all of which is easy to do in JavasScript and already working. The genie won't go back in the bottle just because a few purists liked it better that way.
security, and abuse are major issues that override modern.
overriding a users chosen browser functionality, is abusive, and hostile.
https://medium.com/codex/why-javascript-is-hated-among-progr...
overriding a users chosen browser functionality, is abusive, and hostile.
https://medium.com/codex/why-javascript-is-hated-among-progr...
Article isn’t available without logging into an account so they can track me. No thank you, I’ll pass on that abusive and hostile crap.
I read the entire thing without an account.
Why not just title the post "Show HN: LibreJS"? The FUD vibe seemed unusually dissonant for GNU.
There is no FUD here and the title is appropriate.
It is an interesting article titled "The JavaScript Trap" by Richard Stallman and worth reading. As one solution to this problem it mentions LibreJS in a single line only and nothing more than that.
It is an interesting article titled "The JavaScript Trap" by Richard Stallman and worth reading. As one solution to this problem it mentions LibreJS in a single line only and nothing more than that.
Main discussion is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40339998