> The problem with the web platform is that it's such a bizarre mishmash of things, often designed in isolation without any specific app driving the platform forward. So you get design-by-committee standards that may or may not be implemented on any given browser.
That called organic growth and evolution with natural selection. I find it a much better way than a group of coders sit down in their ivory tower and lay down the "proper" way how I should do things because they know better than me. Good luck with that.
What lives or dies isn't actually chosen by natural selection. It's chosen by a variety of arcane closed-door meetings between the major browser vendors where they agree or disagree to implement each others specs.
That's still natural selection, with browser vendors executing the selection part.
The problem with the web is ultimately the same as with everything else in this industry - it's that the fitness function sucks. And that, unfortunately, is caused by economic incentives being broken, which is not a trivially fixable problem.
That called organic growth and evolution with natural selection. I find it a much better way than a group of coders sit down in their ivory tower and lay down the "proper" way how I should do things because they know better than me. Good luck with that.