[TUHS] tangential unix question: whatever happened to NeWS?

Ronald Natalie ron at ronnatalie.com
Mon Jan 25 07:10:19 AEST 2021


>Too bad.  X won (at least in Unixish systems) and, as Rob Pike put it:  Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.  Curiously, JavaScript (another Gosling effort) is in some ways the modern version of NeWS...
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You mean Java.   JavaScript is a different language that Brendan Eich at 
Netscape wrote for their browser.

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