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Also webapps are an order of magnitude slower and more memory heavy and prone to leaks than native apps.
It's a silly suggestion to say everybody should just move to PWAs.
Imagine that just because Apple has some bullshit requirements on their app store we should give up computers entirely, never again touch processors, memory, bytes, and should instead just operate on a fake virtual environment provided to us by the same corporations that we are supposedly fighting.
Why do you hate Lynx?
Writing web apps is the same as living in a pod.
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.
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
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.
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.
no bro, keep going 🔥
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.
You can place an entire cloud infrastructure behind a simple PWA application. By doing so, you can overcome the performance limitations imposed by individual phones.
While the primal architecture may be somewhat controversial, its advanced nature cannot be denied, offering limitless possibilities.
Browser engines, React Native with extra steps?
Web apps are not necessarily slower than mobile apps.
True, there are a lot of bloated web apps, but skilled developers who care about performance can write web apps that you would not be able to distinguish from native apps in performance.
The only people suggesting web apps are front end web developers that don’t really give a shit how slow or insecure stuff is.
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Seems less likely, judging by precedent. Apps are frequently banned. Sites less so.
When has a major browser vendor blocked a website?