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I absolutely agree. It's the best way to get an app out that works everywhere. In fact, I actually really wish we could collectively work out some kind of shar
by chaorace 6y ago
I absolutely agree. It's the best way to get an app out that works everywhere.
In fact, I actually really wish we could collectively work out some kind of shared container environment for such apps to run more "natively". Something like Electron, but shared between many applications and a little more loosey-goosey in terms of hacking on top of it. Essentially, I want emacs for webapps lol
- seg_lol 6y agoNot being snarky, but I believe that format is html.
- chaorace 6y agoNo snark taken. My counterpoint here would be that HTML is a markup language and that the "equivalent to emacs" would be the web browser itself. My issue with that potential position is that the web is implicitly untrusted. That's why developers even deign to put up with Electron in the first place, because their app can run with more permissions and, thus, offer better host integration (i.e. "nativeness"). Of course, everyone loves to hate Electron. Who wants to run 6 different Chromium instances? Nobody, apparently! I'm not the first wise guy to suggest a single-instance approach that combines the performance wins of a shared browser instance with the trust of an Electron application. It's painfully obvious that there's a golden medium here, but, of course, if it were an easy problem to solve, it would already be solved!