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Eventually we're going to just have a means of saying: Save this webpage as an app. I mean, we do already. It's called PWAs, and I have many of my favorite si

Eventually we're going to just have a means of saying: Save this webpage as an app. I mean, we do already. It's called PWAs, and I have many of my favorite sites saved as an app. But it's featureless and lame. Point being, Electron is just a stopgap while PWAs are figured out. And with the advent of WASM, we'll be able to run some pretty heavy stuff. https://wasm.continuation-labs.com/d3demo/ https://wasm.continuation-labs.com/d3demo/ My long term strategy: Learn rust for WASM, keep an eye on PWAs

jfkebwjsbx 6y ago
Wasm is still very early and lacks a lot of features. It is also not as fast as a native application. The browsers also lack many APIs to compete with native applications, and those are not coming soon either. Web apps are just fine, even nowadays, for many things. But for heavy lifting, no, they are still way, way behind. (By the way, you can compile to Wasm with almost any popular language, not just Rust).