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> I love how forgiving the web is

I have completely opposite opinion. This "forgiveness" comes at a cost:

- unexpected behavior instead of an early crash

- hard to treat the platform seriously for mission critical tasks

- makes it common to have many ways to solve the same problem

Exactly, no bank or payment system would ever offer services on the internet. How can a store operate in this environment! Never gonna happen. Impossible for mission critical tasks.

The person you’re replying to said “hard to consider”, they didn’t say it was “impossible for”. There is an infinity of difference.

Presumably banks and payments systems aren’t using web technologies (one would hope) to do the actual payments and transfers. They use them as an interface to other systems in other languages. And most of them tend to push you hard to use their apps, bank websites are often subpar.

Pigs can fly, given enough thrust.

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