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Not really - imagine if you're looking to create a fully featured video editor, complete with 3d effects and whatnot. It could well exceed 15mb to deliver all t

• dvtrn 8y ago
  Shouldn't this be a native desktop application versus foisting it onto web clients? If we're talking "fully featured"?
  • osrec 8y ago
    This is where the paradigm shift is coming. Your past experiences say it must be a desktop native app, but I believe things like WASM, web workers etc will allow such things to run comfortably in the browser. I really do believe people will build for the browser more than they will for the desktop because it's a more universal platform. I can even imagine a future where, for the majority, the only native app you have on your machine is a browser, and everything else is some variant of a PWA. I really feel this will happen very soon.
    • ForHackernews 8y ago
      This sounds like a nightmare.
      • Spivak 8y ago
        Why? I can't wait for this world where everything can run on Linux.