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The weird thing is the browser is amazing - it's a great 3D rendering, video and playing, video conferencing, UI displaying and animating, vector and raster gr
by torginus 4y ago
The weird thing is the browser is amazing - it's a great 3D rendering, video and playing, video conferencing, UI displaying and animating, vector and raster graphics drawing etc. thing. And probably I barely scratched the surface with my list. It does all of these things either as good as the best native apps or at least quite competently.
And it's all portable. No wonder Electron has eaten the native app scene.
But the JS ecosystem with its myriad frameworks, packers, metalanguages, each halfway between immature and deprecated, and constant churn and breakage is an absolute nightmare.
- badpun 4y agoBrowser is not great for 3D rendering, unless you mean 3D rendering like it's still 2005 (performance-wise). The browser is not able to handle any modern AAA games for example. Also, the browser does not have an out-of-the box set of standard UI widgets, which makes every browser-based (Electron) app redefine them in its unique way.