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[2] is from 2012 though, almost a decade ago. The web has come a long way since, and in five years to a decade could be competitive. With wasm and webgpu and wh
by globuous 7y ago
[2] is from 2012 though, almost a decade ago. The web has come a long way since, and in five years to a decade could be competitive. With wasm and webgpu and what not. And as of today, i dont think the mobile web interfaces for fb and messenger are particularly worse than their native counterparts. They save me the notifications actually...
- muxator 7y agoThe web post-wasm could be a whole different beast from what the web was originally supposed to be. Not that the current situation is idyllic, but I fear a post-wasm web would be even more opaque and less inspectable.
- vbezhenar 7y agowasm is not less inspectable than minified JS.
- dmitriid 7y ago> The web has come a long way since, and in five years to a decade could be competitive. The web is always 5 to 10 years away from being competitive. Meanwhile Twitter struggled to implement such a trivial thing as a virtual list on the web: https://grumpy.website/post/0RQvmdNmN https://grumpy.website/post/0RQvmdNmN It took them almost a year after the resign to fix most of these issues. While breaking or half-breaking functionality for almost everything else. And that's for a website that's nothing but text and pictures. I wouldn't he my breath waiting for web to be competitive.