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Comment by ThomPete | Hacker News Reader

I find it saddening that the primary response from a crowd normally considering themselves visionaries and pushers, seems to be ridiculing other peoples hard work.

I cannot for the life in me understand how introducing a new browser engine deserves this kind of welcoming.

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There's no evidence of hard work in this page. It's a marketing video.

I can make the same claims as them. Worse, projects with catchy colors and no substance are submitted to HN all the time.

Maybe they actually worked hard and developed a good product. But I'll believe it when I see it. HN is a playground for every marketing guy hoping to raise developer hype about his doubtful product. Why should I give anyone the benefit of doubt ?

(And even then, hard work doesn't automatically mean what you do is good or noteworthy.)

I think that people here are mostly confused. There is not really a clear explanation of what this does or anything. We are just presented with a video of things that are not exactly revolutionary and said that this is the future. This leave most of the community puzzled I would say.

It is ok to create hype for a product that is not out yet but still we would have to know what we should get hyped on.

I thought the up votes were meant to serve a way to filter out the good for the bad. If something got to the front thats outright bad then it should be flagged.

Otherwise questions can be asked.

I think that people are interested, but still not sure what this is about so they upvote in hope to have answers. (or vote rigging, but I prefer to have faith in people)

I don't ridicule the work that's gone into this - I just don't get what it is... A browser engine which doesn't use HTML/CSS and which isn't in competition with Chrome/Firefox/IE...? We would just like a better explaination :)

(Edited to remove JS from the "doesn't use" list - my bad)

> A browser engine which doesn't use HTML/CSS/JS

It uses pure JS, without HTML and CSS. It's basically a LightTable creator's dream. I don't get what's there not to get.

I stand corrected about JS - updated comment above. I still don't understand what this is, though.

Of the 9 comments before yours, only 2 (ChikkaChiChi and rorrr2) are really negative. It's a bit much to call that "the primary response".

I cannot for the life in me understand how introducing a new browser engine deserves this kind of welcoming.

I think it's because it claims to be a browser engine yet doesn't seem to actually be one. Browsers do HTML - that's in the very definition. The project may turn out to be cool, but calling it a browser seems like calling it an OS, misleading at best.

Not to diminish any possible achievements of the Nidium team, I must mention that hard work has negative utility. Hard work is a cost, and a cost is never a desirable thing.

What counts is the result: a good result far outweighs the pains of hard work.

Currently no results can be seen. But the prospects the authors paint are rather interesting.

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