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The end user won't benefit from the portability aspect, though. He/she has to load the damn app anew on every device and every session. I'm not against portabl
by tannhaeuser 10y ago
The end user won't benefit from the portability aspect, though. He/she has to load the damn app anew on every device and every session.
I'm not against portable bytecodes (though I find it pointless, and proven to have failed in the past); it's the mating to the Web that I'm concerned with, and the infinite potential for tracking and other privacy invasion.
To bring portability in a meaningful way, Apple and Google have to agree on a common API for touch, phoning, GPS, USB, power management, proximity, NFC, UI. Not going to happen.
So why bring yet another avenue for tracking and malware to browsers? To top it, lets base it on C and SIMD primitives. Lets ditch HTML and draw to a canvas all the time, accesibility, hyperlinking, etc. be damned. Because we don't like JavaScript.