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lol on the "death of desktop apps" - browsers are just the modern version of VT220 terminals. They solve none of the problems of remote vs. local computing, pe
by EricE 7y ago
lol on the "death of desktop apps" - browsers are just the modern version of VT220 terminals. They solve none of the problems of remote vs. local computing, performance issues around abstraction vs. running closer to the hardware natively, etc.
Everything old is new again.
Yes, you can shim stuff and run some things "offline", but there are many tasks for whom I would never want to relinquish total autonomy from the cloud.
It isn't going to happen. Both approaches have their pro's and con's - insinuating one is going to supplant the other is folly, despite people continuing to do it for multiple decades now.
- lima 7y ago> It isn't going to happen. Both approaches have their pro's and con's - insinuating one is going to supplant the other is folly, despite people continuing to do it for multiple decades now. The "web app vs. native" line is already blurry now with Electron apps, and will get blurrier in the future as browser capabilities and performance improves. The browser is becoming an OS on its own - Chromium has already surpassed the Linux kernel in terms of complexity and lines of code. I hate JavaScript and the surrounding ecosystem, but there's no denying that this appears to be the future of a majority of desktop applications (if it isn't already).