ECMAScript Language Specification 13th Edition / June 2022 (846 pages): https://www.ecma-international.org/wp-content/uploads/ECMA-2...

Working Draft, Standard for Programming Language C++ from 2020-01-14 (1815 pages): https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2020/n48...

I'm not sure what's the "correct" spec for the current C++ standard is. Still a big difference between these languages, but 846 pages isn't exactly small either.

To be fair, so much of the C++ standard is literally just being explicit about what the standard does not define and often who defines it instead. But to be fair, it would probably be entirely reasonable to categorize that as essential language knowledge and a "part of the language."

Meanwhile, the ECMAScript spec really does not leave very much wiggle room. It (like every other web standard) is almost just documentation or often even pseudocode-ification of an actual implementation... Certainly makes you think.

Random committee draft of the C spec from 2007 (552 pages): https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1256.pdf

Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual, Volume 2 Instruction Set Reference (2552 pages!!!): https://cdrdv2-public.intel.com/774492/325383-sdm-vol-2abcd....

The ECMAScript language spec is closer to the C spec than the C++ spec, by a large margin. I'm not sure how much you can deduce about relative complexity from these figures.

I agree JS spec is like C, whereas some JS frameworks like Typescript are more like C++ where it's 100% using JS but w/ brevity to the end user. Think:

Note: I'm a moderate JS dev so correct me if I'm wrong.

It’s mentioned in the article, see “Third-party browser support for Add to Home Screen”.

> Apple reportedly hopes to “gain exemptions” from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to remove the steering wheel and brakes, relying fully on self-driving technology.

That sounds crazy to me given the state of self-driving technology. But it sounds like Apple.

Isn’t it the same that google/alphabet is aiming for with their self driving cars?

Even if it is, Waymo has a much more robust track record, and a history of prioritizing safety.

I'm not sure about down voted ones, but I can confirm that I sometimes get already watched movies recommended again (even in recommendation mails).

In Germany there was the Staatstrojaner (Federal Trojan horse) case uncovered by the Chaos Computer Club: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Computer_Club#Staatstroj...

What are you referring to? Users are asked to grant access to contacts since iOS 6 (released 8 years ago).

True and you can also tell that the Instagram app does not request this permission because it is not in the list of apps that do that.

I don't know about other browsers, but Webkit/Safari only allows writing to the clipboard when triggered by a user interaction.

Copied from https://webkit.org/blog/10855/async-clipboard-api/:

"The request to write to the clipboard must be triggered during a user gesture. A call to clipboard.write or clipboard.writeText outside the scope of a user gesture (such as click or touch event handlers) will result in the immediate rejection of the promise returned by the API call."

That is reassuring to hear, thanks for digging that up

She’s on the board of directors: https://www.dropbox.com/about.

Considering how much control Apple exercises over apps/content in the app store, I definitely prefer for DDG to stay independent. I say this as an Apple (Mac, iPhone) and DGG user.

I’m not sure if I consider that an ad, but I got the same after scrolling way down. I’m on Mobile Safari.