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That's unnecessary. I ship my apps as single-file executables that are ready to go. In the worst case you can use a directory like zoom does (on Linux at least)
by anderspitman 6y ago
That's unnecessary. I ship my apps as single-file executables that are ready to go. In the worst case you can use a directory like zoom does (on Linux at least) which contains all the libraries and dependencies you need.
- josephg 6y agoThats still way more awkward than what the web provides. - I don't need to uninstall / delete a website when I'm done with it - I don't need to pick an executable format. (Portable or installed? windows mac or linux? dpkg or rpm? From the dev's website or through homebrew/apt? Is a portable executable even available for this application?) - I don't need to give the author of the webpage access to all my local files. Native programs are also often 10x+ as large as websites. (Eg the facebook iOS app is somehow 488mb) These problems are all solvable. Wasm alone will go a long way to solving the sandboxing and app format problems. But we still need to build the platform, whatever it is.
- kaba0 6y agoThe facebook website managed to eat 1GB of ram alone multiple times.
- josephg 6y agoRight! And despite that, it loads in seconds. Traction would be very different if people had to install facebook on their computers to try it out! "Oh yeah its this cool social network.. just download - no, not the portable executable version... yeah, its 300 megs... Then you need to click it to install it"
- pjmlp 6y agoSeconds? It can be minutes depending on where one is located on the globe. Not everyone is luckily at home using broadband connections with flat rate.