> thesis [...] not talking about literally all web apps. I think all my problems with this article are summed up in that paragraph. It's not so much that there

> thesis [...] not talking about literally all web apps. I think all my problems with this article are summed up in that paragraph. It's not so much that there're problems (there're of course) but it's just not the problems the author likes and thus goes into this exaggerating rhetoric. Safe to say, I remain unconvinced about needing to kill the web and I'm sure whatever this guy suggests in the second part will have its own share of problems, probably even the same ones. Because, as it turns out, the web isn't that special in that area; every platform has problems, some identical. Also, his description of the state of the art in the 90s suggests that the guy isn't that familiar with desktop development today (kind of surprising, given what the author has worked on). Safe to say, efficient binaries that run on just a few MBs of RAM is a) not what happens today or b) hasn't changed much in the last 20 years. Depending on what application we're talking about. Also when did the web lose on mobile and when did developers "near universally" choose to write native mobile applications?