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> everything other the browser and the text editor is now a web app. The media creation community is looks at the web programming community and wondering what

> everything other the browser and the text editor is now a web app. The media creation community is looks at the web programming community and wondering what the hell you are talking about, and why your view is so narrow. Blender, ZBrush, Unreal Engine, Visual Studio, ProTools, Reaper, Substance Suite etc. etc. the list goes on and on. These kind of applications often have extremely heavy system requirements and are often extremely sensitive to latency, and are just not going up and "migrate to the cloud" anytime soon. Embedded programming is another example. A lot of developers work in this space. > I have literally 4 apps that I use on my machine: terminal and postman in addition to the above. Your personal requirements, as lightweight and easily offloadable as they are, do not represent the wider community. I am constantly astounded by how blinkered the web community appears to be about this.

evilos 5y ago
Visual effects artists and embedded programmers are very niche communities (former embedded SW engineer here). Probably something like 90% of people just need a browser 90% of the time. It's kind of a no brainer from a business point of view. If your app can be browser based and still functional, it should be. Of course there are drawbacks but the economics are in the browser's favor.
- nineteen999 5y ago
  > If your app can be browser based and still functional, it should be. We can choose to disagree on this point, however... >> everything other the browser and the text editor is now a web app It is a long way from the parent's comment (above) to "if your app can be browser based and still functional, it should be". Maybe it should, maybe it shouldn't, but that doesn't contradict my point that the parent is incorrect in that "everything other the browser and the text editor is now a web app". You're arguing a different thing. There are plenty of apps, as I described above, that don't have functional web-based equivalents, and probably will not for a very long time to come. There are enough niche industries with such requirements that combined, they will act as a counterweight to the push for everything to run as a web app for quite some time.
- blub 5y ago
  "If your app can be browser based and still functional, it should be. Of course there are drawbacks but the economics are in the browser's favor" This right here is the reason there are many browser-based apps - it's really convenient for the company, damn the users. The company can do whatever they want, whenever they want and have full access to both telemetry and user data.
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evilos 5y ago

Visual effects artists and embedded programmers are very niche communities (former embedded SW engineer here). Probably something like 90% of people just need a browser 90% of the time. It's kind of a no brainer from a business point of view. If your app can be browser based and still functional, it should be. Of course there are drawbacks but the economics are in the browser's favor.

nineteen999 5y ago
> If your app can be browser based and still functional, it should be. We can choose to disagree on this point, however... >> everything other the browser and the text editor is now a web app It is a long way from the parent's comment (above) to "if your app can be browser based and still functional, it should be". Maybe it should, maybe it shouldn't, but that doesn't contradict my point that the parent is incorrect in that "everything other the browser and the text editor is now a web app". You're arguing a different thing. There are plenty of apps, as I described above, that don't have functional web-based equivalents, and probably will not for a very long time to come. There are enough niche industries with such requirements that combined, they will act as a counterweight to the push for everything to run as a web app for quite some time.
blub 5y ago
"If your app can be browser based and still functional, it should be. Of course there are drawbacks but the economics are in the browser's favor" This right here is the reason there are many browser-based apps - it's really convenient for the company, damn the users. The company can do whatever they want, whenever they want and have full access to both telemetry and user data.
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