Yeah - I was just thinking "jeez all these people sure like talking about themselves" while scrolling through this thread. Self focus is a great way to push people away and a terrible way to be happy.
We should abandon this credo, just like we did the "all bugs are shallow" one.
There is quite some diversity, since unlike basically any other technology of comparable complexity there are already three fully independent browser implementations, with a fourth one (servo) coming. But they are not fully compatible and will never be, which is why every website has to be tested and adapted slightly for each engine.
Even more diversity will actually weaken the web as a platform, not strengthen it. So, no, it is probably not a good thing if taken too far.
And, besides, how likely is it that this particular implementation will ever come close to the existing ones in terms of compatibility? Highly unlikely.
Developing a browser from scratch is a pretty damn hard task. Keeping it safe and up to date is nearly impossible for a small team without funding.
In the case of gngr, it can't even render Reddit or Google.com correctly. Can you imagine how badly it breaks on more complex sites? Can you imagine how broken its core is?
Diversity is good, but it requires resources, lots of them.
As a member of the Servo team, I think the gngr team deserves congratulations on how far they've come. For perspective, Servo only recently (in the last month or so) became usable for browsing Hacker News (though this is largely because we chose a different set of things to implement first). Also, I think it's good for a variety of reasons to have some simpler implementations around, and not just the giant, crufty, heavily-optimized beasts like Gecko and WebKit.
Compatibility is a slog, but it's a doable one. Remember, to be usable on a lot of real-world sites you don't need to catch up with Firefox Nightly or Chrome Canary - you only need to catch up with IE6, or maybe IE8.
Of course, I'm also disappointed that they didn't choose to build their browser on Servo instead. ;)
I have great memories from a Montessori School I went to as a kid. Spent most of my childhood education there. It was a big house, each room was dedicated to a subject and students would change rooms, big shared tables and very few students per room. I also don't remember grades or at least no focus on it.
When I got to a normal school it was one big room packed with tiny individual chairs, all classes happened in that room, everything was easy, suddenly I was a "top student" and grades were a carrot to chase after. I didn't turned out exactly a Noam Chomsky but I find it funny he had this same experience while going from an alternative education to a traditional one.
> Through the math competitions, Avila discovered IMPA, where Brazil held its Olympiad award ceremonies each year. There, he met prominent mathematicians like Carlos Gustavo Moreira and Nicolau Corção Saldanha, and while still technically in high school, he began studying graduate-level mathematics.
>In Brazil, Avila could relish mathematics without the career pressures he might have faced in the United States. “It was better for me to study at IMPA than if I were at Princeton or Harvard,” he said. “Growing up and being educated in Brazil was very positive for me."
Do voluntary jobs with sick and old people. Replacing your problems with other people's problems makes you think better.