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The real issue here is that the hardware isn't capable of sandboxing without introducing tons of side channel attacks. Lots of applications are willing to sacri
by peterhunt 5y ago
The real issue here is that the hardware isn't capable of sandboxing without introducing tons of side channel attacks. Lots of applications are willing to sacrifice a lot of performance in order to gain the distribution advantages from a safe, sandboxed execution environment.
- jacobr1 5y agoThis is the real issue. The other comments here are talking about dev-productivity, but they have the causal chain backwards. The browser overhead is about running in a sandbox, on arbitrary/unknown hardware. Web development had poorer DX than desktop app development for a long time, until the critical mass of web-devs (driven by the distribution advantages) finally drove the DX investment to heavier on the web side.