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Is it a native app, an Electron app, or a webapp? I don't even know because I refuse to get anywhere near it. If either of the last two, it seems inevitable th
by uoaei 5y ago
Is it a native app, an Electron app, or a webapp? I don't even know because I refuse to get anywhere near it.
If either of the last two, it seems inevitable that their engineers would push as much of the compute server-side as possible to retain fidelity at the keystroke level.
We really should be doing a better job about demonstrating the distinctions between locally-run and -hosted tools, and cloud tools, for novices and laypeople.
Back when Facebook started pushing everything server-side it was a pretty obvious change if you were on a bad connection. When you'd type in a form on a bad connection it would often re-populate text that you had just deleted, or move the cursor around to unexpected places, presumably to match back up between their server-side caches and the local state. In the early days my adblock was interfering with this, too, which made the issue more apparent and caused some very strange behavior.
- npteljes 5y agoIf you don't want to get closer, you can always check it in a third party resource like Wikipedia. There it says that it's cloud-based, and that it's both an app for platform and a browser extension. No need to wear ignorance as a badge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammarly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammarly