I do Python and JS daily. Never had to do hand memory management in my life (maybe once in Objective-C). Webdev is not the best tool for the job but it's cheap

I do Python and JS daily. Never had to do hand memory management in my life (maybe once in Objective-C). Webdev is not the best tool for the job but it's cheaper and substitutes for a sleeve of other specialised tools. The user experience is secondary if you do a product on a budget and iterate over it all the time. Especially if you are a web-first experience like Slack. Having native stuff there would make it even worse adding cognitive dissonance to the overall design. I guess there's a method in this madness.