Gregory's Server@jonny what the design reminds me of is Google Wave - a lot of cleverness in the lower layers, and then genuinely terrible choices about object inheritance and byte offsets into text for links that make interop really annoying.
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 @jonny what the design reminds me of is Google Wave - a lot of cleverness in the lower layers, and then genuinely terrible choices about object inheritance and byte offsets into text for links that make interop really annoying. 1 comment
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@KevinMarks @jonny We've had quite a few discussions about the byte offsets, but as I understand the main issue and the origin of this is JavaScript and how it uses UTF-16 (or "WTF-16") instead of UTF-8 for strings internally, and to get UTF-8 you need to convert it first, and at that point it's easier to work with bytes than Unicode code points - and since being able to use the protocol from JavaScript somewhat easily is kinda important, it was considered the least bad solution...