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As long as performance is important, native software will always have an edge. Depends on the application.
by laythea 8y ago
As long as performance is important, native software will always have an edge. Depends on the application.
- weberc2 8y agoI’m a big fan of native UI, but I doubt this particular claim. The web stack is almost certainly more performance than GTK, for example.
- laythea 8y agoApologies, when I say native software, I don't just mean the UI.
- weberc2 8y agoI don't agree on this count either. You can have performance and maintainability by writing your business logic in a daemon. Only very few applications will find this IPC cost unacceptable, and WASM promises to raise the performance ceiling even further. There are lots of good arguments for native software, but I don't find the performance argument to be particularly compelling.