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We have an ecosystem that's free, it is the web. The spam, the malware: A great deal of web apps don't have these issues. We need to continue to enhance the web
by SirHound 9y ago
We have an ecosystem that's free, it is the web. The spam, the malware: A great deal of web apps don't have these issues. We need to continue to enhance the web as an application platform, rather than hobble it.
- xj9 9y agoi don't really see web applications ever being good mobile applications. to start with, jit compiling applications on a energy-constrained device is straight stupid. you should compile the application for me on some system that isn't already struggling to make it though to day on a single charge. wasm might help some, but pls don't make my mobile do more work than it has to. #p2p applications often need special capabilities or native libraries to work well (or at all). the web offers some weak apis for this, but really isn't up to par with what i would be interested in using (or building on). again wasm might help here, only time will tell. finally, web standards move very slowly and really don't exist as a disruptive force. if you need buy-in from all of the major vendors to push new/interesting features through, you aren't going to get much unless it favors them somehow.