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The web is a bad reinvention of distributed RPCs on desktop systems, imo.
by pnathan 10y ago
The web is a bad reinvention of distributed RPCs on desktop systems, imo.
- rimliu 10y agoYou mean web apps? Because the web itself was fine till everyone started thinking that anything on the web must be an application. And that web must "win" mobile for some reason.
- oblio 10y agoYou'll understand that "some reason" when you'll want some cool, fancy, useful app and the vendor will have not developed a version for your current mobile OS.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoFew of web apps are useful, though, and all suffer severe performance and UX penalty by the very virtue of being run within a browser.
- oblio 10y agoFew of any kind of apps are useful. The non-purists (which is most people) have decided that availability trumps everything. I was more of a purist, myself, but after some bad experiences with the lack of native apps, I'm more of a realist these days.
- pnathan 10y agoWeb apps have been the default approach for over a decade now. The O.G. vision of the web / netscape was to have a virtual OS, platform independent. I think it's time to lay the idea of the webapp as somehow being this alien thing to rest...
- rhabarba 10y agoThe web is a broken and incomplete adaption of Xanadu.
- simonh 10y agoXanadu is a broken and incomplete implementation of Xanadu, and has been for more than my entire lifespan (child of the 60s baby!).
- rhabarba 10y agoWhich is not enough reason to prefer an implementation which dropped Xanadu's probably most important feature (two-side links) from the beginning.
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- dredmorbius 10y agoI blame the person from Porlock.