That's pretty much my concern as well. It's going to be Microsoft vs. Netscape all over again, and we all know what happened to Netscape.
Nobody even mentions poor Lynx anymore.
If you haven't used it at least once in the last 5 years, you're not allowed to.
Bummer.
Looks like lynx isn't carried in that distro's repositories. There might be a third-party repo that has it, though.
You old fogeys are living in the past. All the cool kids use links now days. (According to google ubuntu calls it "links2," but most real distros just call it "links.")
HOW IS THAT EVEN A BIT CLEVER????!
There was no joke intended. However that was Microsoft Windows version of Ubuntu which doesn't seem to have it available. I just dual booted into Mint Cinnamon version 19 and lynx is there by default, no installation needed.
Disagree. When GCC basically killed all the competing open source compilers by embracing and extending the language, it meant there were no longer fast compilers available for embedded systems, and interesting designs like TENDRA with its explicitly portable intermediate code went by the wayside. There was a slowdown and stall in C compiler technology and C/C++ design until CLANG matured and brought competition back into the open source compiler market again. If there had been competing compilers we might have had a decent C++N in 2004 or 2005 instead of having to wait for C++11 to start seeing real design improvements again. I mean Boost was great, but GCC never bothered bringing the Boost improvements into the core until CLANG started nipping at their heels.
Well, people using smartphones never really had much choice about using Webkit, considering the fact that Apple and Google forced them being preinstalled, and Apple disallows any other rendering engine still as today. Nor most would care anyway about the engine, they just want to get the stuff displayed right, and since Webkit/Blink becames the mobile de facto standard by market share, and mobile first is our reality in terms of web sites, it is the standard engine being used by the vast majority.
Take note that each example is stifled by an attempt to compete instead of collaborate... Open source and walled gardens are incompatible.
You'll have to elaborate on that, do you mean the way GCC deliberately broke the C language with nonsense like the binary extension to the trinary "?:" operator? They drove massive changes in C during that period, but once they got a monopoly they stagnated. Then they lost the monopoly and there's been pretty fantastic progress from C++11 through C++18, and no success in squeezing out competitors.
