Closure library/compiler was the only real way to write a large SPA back in 2012+.
You had access to an amazing compiler with a standard library that was like having every npm module you could ever need but written by Google and well maintained without the security risks.
We still use it, and the only real “wish” we have is maybe if the jsdoc “type system” could just be replaced by TypeScript while maintaining all the rest of the library/compiler.
I helped start an early (1998) Australian ISP in Sydney (a modem bank connected to an ISDN line) with a Linux 2.0 infrastructure (Slackware…) and Perl based billing system running on Postgres 96. I was 16.
Been in the Web3 space as a side hustle for something like 2 years now and the only real usecase I’ve seen is something like USDC transfers over Solana.
Everything else is just a scam and/or ponzi.
Add to that that the price of coins is manipulated by market makers and exchanges (CEX and DEX) and it’s not looking good, honestly.
Regulation would actually improve the space a lot. Something like a national ticker for coins would go a long way to clearing out a lot of the scum.
Technically speaking, it's a JavaScript library used for interacting with EVM blockchains.
Practically speaking, people use the term to mean just about whatever they want nowadays. Often it's used as a generic buzzword to sell products on some vague idea of a better, more equitable internet.
you are describing just parts of a larger, complicated system. Everything you say is true no doubt, but that is not all that is going on, in the entirety.
On the other side, six hundred years of modern finance with insurance and performance-based outcomes, have been leveraged with top-heavy monopoly players. In daily finance on a very large scale, industry companies use "trust" or credit-ratings, or regulatory capture even, to hold on to transaction flows with a lot of overhead.
The promise of automatable chains of transactions is a kind of no-boss, no-outsized fee "free market." The largest currency issuers of the world know this, and have been busily building their own, controlled versions.
You are wandering among flea-market stalls and wondering where the sense is, one might say.
BMW, Mercedes, GM, and other makes all make vehicles that drive and change lanes automatically on the highway.
The FSD Beta software is also different than the standard autopilot lane-keeping and adaptive cruise control system. It’s labeled as a Beta for a reason. Drivers must opt-in to the beta and agree to be alert and responsive. Tesla won’t even offer the Beta to you unless you exhibit safe driving behaviors.
Whether or not beta software should be on the roads at all is still a valid question. I think Tesla would make the argument that no software will be sufficiently refined until it is tested by a huge variation of real world conditions. Opponents of Tesla will argue that this software isn’t tested enough to release to even a small section of the general public.
I object on the principle that I didn't agree to be a part of Tesla's beta program, yet I have to assume that risk every time I get on the road near one. And god help you if you're a pedestrian or cyclist.
TBF VW Group royally fucked up their EV software development and it's a big part of why their current models get criticised in reviews, and there are interesting user complaints, like doors opening while in motion. VW might eventually get this right, but I suspect Google's investment in car infotainment and robotaxi tech will pay off as car makers realize software is hard and expensive.
That said, Elon's nearly decade long hypefest should be thoroughly discredited by now: Camera-only AV looks to be a dead end and it is exemplifying why "the best part is no part" does not trump "premature optimization kills."
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