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> It is easy to imagine something much better, where your code runs on a nice tidy runtime native to the OS Yeah, cause that's how every native platform has be
by arkanciscan 6y ago
> It is easy to imagine something much better, where your code runs on a nice tidy runtime native to the OS
Yeah, cause that's how every native platform has been since the begining. Yet the web still needed to be invented. Why?
- Spivak 6y agoBecause no two platforms can agree on anything so now we have "hosted platforms."
- thayne 6y agoThe biggest reason is probably that you don't need the user to explicitly download and install your app. Also, a web app works on all the major OSes with a single GUI environment. And then of course the fact that webapps run in a more secure sandbox. A standard cross API and sandbox could potentially solve the second two. But I'm not sure how to solve the first outside of a browser.