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> web developers have to deal with a layer of complexity that other programs don't have to

yep, other programs totally don't need to deal with different OS, graphics APIs, GPU driverstacks and hardware architectures.

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Those are all runtime concerns. They don't affect the literal syntax that you write, as is the case with JavaScript. You can't feature-detect syntax. Instead your entire program will just fail to parse.

So like shaders?

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