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I think it's more of a hybrid approach, the web renderer was running in the cloud, the ui was native and local. I beleve Citrix is mostly a standard VNC type p

I think it's more of a hybrid approach, the web renderer was running in the cloud, the ui was native and local. I beleve Citrix is mostly a standard VNC type product where everything is rendered on a server and streamed. I was envisaging a toolkit to enable you to build an app where parts of it run in cloud, parts of it locally. Think of a 3D cad tool, the ui could be all local, but the rendering and compute is in the cloud. Or a 3d physics based ray tracing app, you could do the 3d wire frame locally, but have the real-time ray tracing happening on a very large server. On top of that, by have a cloud based state, it's only one step away from marking that state shared with other users to enable collaboration.

ghostly_s 4y ago
You're misinformed. Citrix has plugins for managing aspects of GUI rendering, video/audio playback and GPU pipelines local on the client, which are a key part of the "secret sauce" behind their success in industry.[1] This is a product which is being used today for remote CAD/CAM workflows in the largest firms, whereas afaict applications of Mighty's product to this problem sphere is nothing but idle fantasy by HN posters? 1. ie. https://www.citrix.com/solutions/vdi-and-daas/hdx/what-is-hdx.html https://www.citrix.com/solutions/vdi-and-daas/hdx/what-is-hd... Whether they do these things well is another question entirely, but they've had more success than any of their competitors.