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I'd argue that the browser is trying to be the Operating System, and we're living in some strange intermediary time before the hellscape that is "Chrome becomin

I'd argue that the browser is trying to be the Operating System, and we're living in some strange intermediary time before the hellscape that is "Chrome becoming a kernel & OS" happens. Good* plot for a sci-fi book, that.

TheRealDunkirk 4y ago
It's an IDE for a runtime-compiled-at-download application environment, with a really crappy widget system. And I've wondered the same thing. How far are we from someone writing a "bare metal" browser that would run on hardware without an OS, even if that hardware were just a Raspberry Pi?
layer8 4y ago
Right, in a sense it's OS-native apps that suffer from the focus on browsers.