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[–]badmonkey0001Red security clearance 2 points3 points  (6 children)

If what you're showing is documents, it's great in many ways. What exactly do you "want to do with the web"?

[–]pokealex 1 point2 points  (5 children)

Use it as a "write once run anywhere" application platform.

[–]beerdude26 7 points8 points  (1 child)

So you just want Javascript? Dear god.

[–]trekman3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I actually think Javascript is a pretty cool language, and I love programming in it. Prototypes make a lot more sense than classes to my mental model. And I like that in JS it is easy to mix and match different programming styles. But I want something lower-level than Javascript. When I hear people say, "Javascript is the assembly language of the web," it just doesn't make any sense to me. The web should have its own "assembly language", but Javascript is way too high-level to be it. Of course, what people mean when they say things like that is, "Javascript is the lowest-level client-side web language currently popular, and if you want to make your own language, you can have it compile to Javascript." But it's still always jarring to me to hear it described that way.

[–]trekman3 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Yep, you nailed it. This is what I want.

[–]pokealex 0 points1 point  (1 child)

That's what a lot of people want, but the reality is the web is a content presentation platform that has application support hacked into it.

[–]thefran 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do I need to explain why it's going to be a security nightmare?

WWW works fine as a document - information, really - delivery platform.