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Are there any things in Linux that need to be started over from scratch? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 7 months ago by sepulcher@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I'm curious how software can be created and evolve over time. I'm afraid that at some point, we'll realize there are issues with the software we're using that can only be remedied by massive changes or a complete rewrite.

Are there any instances of this happening? Where something is designed with a flaw that doesn't get realized until much later, necessitating scrapping the whole thing and starting from scratch?

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[–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 39 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Maybe not exaclly Linux, sorry for that, but it was first thing that get to my mind.
Web browsers really should be rewritten, be more modular and easier to modify. Web was supposed to be bulletproof and work even if some features are not present, but all websites are now based on assumptions all browsers have 99% of Chromium features implemented and won't work in any browser written from scratch now.

[–] intrepid@lemmy.ca 32 points 7 months ago (3 children)

The same guys who create Chrome have stuffed the web standards with needlessly bloated fluff that makes it nearly impossible for anyone else to implement it. If alternative browsers have to be a thing again, we need a new standard, or at least the current standard with significantly large portions removed.

[–] kuneho@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

we need to just rebuild the web, built on a decentralized LoRa or such mesh network.

[–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 7 months ago

WWW ≠ Internet.
Internet has some things to be fixed too (https://secushare.org/broken-internet), but is not as doomed as the web.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

That sounds like amp, no thanks.

Most of the standards themselves aren't the problem, we just shouldn't have to rely so badly on them that a site immediately is dead if a small item is not available

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