@ramsey @coates @Ocramius @grhmc @wimgtr I don't know what the practical implications of web3 are (maybe no one does yet?) but I do expect a lot of VCs to lose their money before we figure out out.
@ramsey @grhmc @Ocramius @wimgtr @coates I'm not saying Google has done no wrong, I just think it makes perfect sense why lots of sites work best in Chrome if you set aside idealism. I think it's awful for the web, and a lot of it is a catastrophe, but that's why I work with people who respect idealism and Good Work.
@ramsey @grhmc @Ocramius @wimgtr @coates They have done and continue to do a lot that is terrible for the web, but from a frontend perspective, Chrome is arguably a dream. It is cutting edge in terms of new features and it controls a huge majority on desktop and half of all mobile.
@ramsey @grhmc @Ocramius @wimgtr @coates They built projects like Dart, Angular and Web Components to give frontend devs tools they wanted (for better or worse). And their APIs and services were huge during Web 2.0 and continue to be extremely valuable, especially Google Fonts.
@ramsey @grhmc @Ocramius @wimgtr @coates I think a big factor is that Chrome has been courting frontend developers aggressively for over a decade. They advanced built in browser dev tools in a major way. ...