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> 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 d
by 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).