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PWAs can never fully substitute native applications. It's difficult to access hardware and impossible to call operating system functions from a PWA. Application
by zelly 7y ago
PWAs can never fully substitute native applications. It's difficult to access hardware and impossible to call operating system functions from a PWA. Applications that do something interesting tend to have a native library behind the frontend that does performance-sensitive work.
- pjmlp 7y agoQuite the contrary, one of the benefits of PWAs is exactly that when they are distributed via app stores they get access to native APIs without any kind of manual FFI. That is how they work across ChromeOS, Android and Windows, with Apple being the outlier for obvious reasons.
- zelly 7y agoI didn't know this. If this is true then it's more powerful than Electron, which requires you exchange IPC messages from a separate process. The fact that you have to use the app store is a major disadvantage though.