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So web frontends are great because ... they're incredibly successful. That kind of tautological reasoning doesn't contribute to the discussion tbh. Web frontend
by tannhaeuser 4y ago
So web frontends are great because ... they're incredibly successful. That kind of tautological reasoning doesn't contribute to the discussion tbh. Web frontends are everywhere because recurring payments and/or attention economy approaches are more profitable than classical software sales, simple as that.
- chrisco255 4y agoWeb front ends are great because they truly run on any device without needing to install a binary. They're our only way to permissionlessly reach mobile users (due to mobile duopoly and sandboxed OSes). A web front end can reach billions of users and devices and be deployed in milliseconds.
- layer8 4y agoThat doesn't mean that the tech stack/ecosystem is great compared to how good or bad it hypothetically could be while having the property you mention. It's like saying a programming language is great because it is Turing-complete, which, while certainly an important property, is not exactly an encompassing measure of quality.
- chrisco255 4y agoThe web is the way it is because no one owns it. The web standards and protocols were negotiated over decades and have already accounted for countless amounts of compromise and feature sets between numerous competing interests and evolving tech while also maintaining backwards compatibility. How great it could hypothetically be is practically useless as an argument.