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Writing web apps is the same as living in a pod.
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8b278ad8... 2y ago đź’¬ 1

That's a good point, I hadn't thought of it quite that way.

As a web app developer I usually look at it from the perspective that making my app available at a URL makes it very easy for other's to access.

A lot of people (including me) are afraid of installing untrusted software on their bare metal machines from strangers, and browsers overcome that by being, well, a pod.

But I see why people like to develop for iOS or Android and I use some of the Android stuff. I feel left out of the iOS stuff because I'm not an Apple guy anymore. The web pod stuff is available to everyone.

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hazeycode 2y ago đź’¬ 1

Mobile OSs have sandboxed app environments. The fear of installing non “bare metal machines” originates in desktop operating systems. Which are all fucking trash and need a rethink but just nobody has gone and put in the work to make a modern desktop OS that addresses this. We need to define an ISA so that I can run any x86 app on any x86 machine without giving it access to the entire system. That we have to have 3 fucking versions of an app that runs on the same hardware is insane. It’s this nonsense that led to running everything in the browser seem like a good ideas (it’s not).

#Native2.0

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hazeycode 2y ago đź’¬ 1

I guess it’s 2 versions now given that ARM chips are popular now. Anyway its is just some pipe dream shit.

Practically speaking, we need a new open source OS that is designed with all the stuff that we’ve learnt over the last 50-something years.

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hazeycode 2y ago đź’¬ 1

We don’t use computers the same way we did when unix was designed. And the internet didn’t exist then.

End of rant. Maybe.

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signal_and_rage 2y ago đź’¬ 1

no bro, keep going 🔥

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hazeycode 2y ago đź’¬ 1

Fuchsia OS looks like someone has gone and done the work. But it’s gimped because the UI stuff runs in Dart VM. Wtf why? Dart is mehhh. But maybe the kernel, Zircon, is worth a look. It’s open source, but it’s also a Google project so who knows what dance is required to contribute.