[GTALUG] Mozilla XUL is dead

[Russell Reiter]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 11:23 AM Christopher Browne via talk <
talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> https://yoric.github.io/post/why-did-mozilla-remove-xul-addons/
>
> Pretty interesting article on how Firefox has been evolving over the last
> 15-ish years.
>
> I remember when Wrox Press asked me if I knew of anyone that knew about
> XUL, because their "hype wagon" thought that XUL was the next big thing,
> and they wanted a book on that.  And it was, though after a fashion much
> smaller than I expect Wrox was imagining.
>
> XUL and XPCOM (which is kinda like COM, which was Microsoft's fork of
> DCE's DCOM, which was an extendible API system kinda like CORBA...) are now
> being actively deprecated.  A pain in the neck to anyone that had devoted a
> lot of resources to XUL, but probably not something others care about
> terribly much.
>

Not specifically XUL related but I find this quick read interesting. It
seems that API
<https://www.cequence.ai/blog/tales-from-the-front-lines-attackers-on-lockdown-focus-on-apis/>'s
used for managing IoT endpoints are coming under ever increasing threat of
attack from botnets during the pandemic and probably from now on.

https://www.cequence.ai/blog/tales-from-the-front-lines-attackers-on-lockdown-focus-on-apis/


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