I was gonna say that this comment seemed like something from a decade ago... before I realized the article itself is from 2009 (12 years!!) Yes, all of that is

I was gonna say that this comment seemed like something from a decade ago... before I realized the article itself is from 2009 (12 years!!) Yes, all of that is true, and arguably none of it matters anymore. > At some point you browser will just turn into another operating system running on top of your operating system. That happened long ago, aside from a few specialized apps in mobile stores. The only time people need those is if they want faster repeat functionality that they use often (email, calendar, some stores, etc.). Otherwise, everything from office work to realtime raytraced gaming can happen in a web browser... and that's great, even if the dev experience relatively sucks and the code is messy. The Web has turned programming from snobby/precise/beautiful/elitist/expensive engineering to arts & crafts and democratized content creation in the process (eh, for better or worse). Nowadays writing a webpage is easier than writing a letter.