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Yup, that's why I put in that last part: > Add an app store and the web will have finished becoming the platform that everyone has been suspecting it is. Basi
by hardwaresofton 4y ago
Yup, that's why I put in that last part:
> Add an app store and the web will have finished becoming the platform that everyone has been suspecting it is.
Basically what we need now is a user-side "app store" that downloads apps packaged as WASM and runs them!
Honestly this setup could probably work today, use something like Tauri[0] to build a simple app-store like experience. When someone installs an app, this thing downloads the WASM, and runs it with the necessary linked modules (local file access, network).
Then, you can spin up a new window that is the new application, and keep it running/do whatever else users would expect. I mean you could even launch the apps standalone/separate processes as well so that people can close the original one (or put it to tray, whatever).
This could easily be like snap/flatpak but even better in some ways. Browser technology is almost assured to always be moving forward and getting more powerful/impressive because of the large interests involved.
- iampims 4y agohttps://wapm.io/ https://wapm.io/
- hardwaresofton 4y agoI'm thinking something a little more consumer focused than wapm. Maybe the tool I'm describing could use wapm. Consumers don't use CLIs to install things.