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Really cool, how is it unique in terms of what it can do, compared to a regular web browser?

• gliechtenstein 10y ago
  1. It's native. Doesn't matter how you package a website, it still uses an HTML/JS/CSS engine to let you interact with it. Jason lets you effectively build a native app without actually building an app. The JSON markup is just an instruction to remote control native elements and native functions directly. 2. it's JSON based, it's meant for interacting with APIs, not a website. Websites don't work well because html/js/css have evolved to become something of monstrosity--which is both good and bad. 3. It assumes session. It assumes that you will be the sole user of the app, which browsers can't do for many reasons. So it has authentication/key management system built in. 4. More coming soon: This is just a first version, I intentionally cut down on many features I could have implemented because I wanted to see what people think first. I have a couple of production apps from which I extracted Jason. For an example check out www.ethan.fm It's running on Jason.
  • Techonomicon 10y ago
    By native, do you mean uses native elements, or simply loads things in a webview? I don't know how many people consider that truly native if that's the case.
    • gliechtenstein 10y ago
      It's completely native and does not even touch any webview. Here's a related answer I posted elsewhere on this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11888516 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11888516