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The idea of writing a constantly changing application and feeding it only untrusted content over the network while exposing more and more of the OS to that appl
by blub 6y ago
The idea of writing a constantly changing application and feeding it only untrusted content over the network while exposing more and more of the OS to that application does not work.
It doesn't work in Firefox with its small block of Rust code, doesn't work in Chrome nor Safari. Because it's the dumbest fucking idea ever.
But sure, at this point we don't have anything to lose by rewriting it in Rust/Swift/whatever.
- asiachick 6y agoAnd that alternative is what? you run no software on your computer? Native apps have way more access to your system then a webpage so I'm glad there are 100s or 1000s of web apps I can run rather then being forced to install native apps to get the same functionality.
- smnthermes 6y agoNot all web apps/websites need the same functionality. And not everyone wants shitty webapps [0][1], so desktop apps should not die. [0]: https://drewdevault.com/2016/11/24/Electron-considered-harmful.html https://drewdevault.com/2016/11/24/Electron-considered-harmf... [1]:https://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/ https://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/
- blub 6y agoAppStore / platform package manager. Web apps are anyway nonsense both from a privacy (zero privacy) and security PoV (single high-value target, foreign jurisdiction, crappy browsers, byzantine tools, hopelessly overcomplicated architectures etc).