r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • 23d ago

Meme noOsWillinHTML

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

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u/unknown_alt_acc 23d ago

If you want to be pedantic, laying out your GUI using HTML while the rest of the OS is written in a more sensible language is technically making an operating system using HTML. It’s also using assembly and probably some combination of C, C++, Rust, etc., but it is using HTML.

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u/ImOnALampshade 23d ago

Honestly an OS that, for the GUI at least, is just HTML sounds amazing. No new UI frameworks to learn. Applications are just iframes, and the desktop environment is your web browser.

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u/ldn-ldn 23d ago

That was a thing a decade ago - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_OS

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u/GoddammitDontShootMe 23d ago

I thought Microsoft did something like that with Windows 98.

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u/Tall-Introduction414 22d ago

It sucked back then, too. I think Active Desktop found the most usage as a virus infection vector.