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> The web was invented as a presentation layer for information, not a VM that executes arbitrary remote code and can talk to hardware. The wheel was almost cer
by vkou 4y ago
> The web was invented as a presentation layer for information, not a VM that executes arbitrary remote code and can talk to hardware.
The wheel was almost certainly not invented for the automobile, and yet, your car has four of them.
- paulryanrogers 4y agoIndeed. Yet you don't have wheels on your hat. So there's a point where using a tool solely based on ubiquity becomes absurd.
- vkou 4y agoPeople aren't doing this on the web for it's ubiquity, they are doing it because application distribution in the non-web ecosystem sucks. And because as bad as HTML and CSS is, native UI frameworks are even worse for most use cases. If you don't like how all the applications are built on the web, by all means, provide a native alternative that's better. Microsoft under Ballmer would have loved something like that, and spent a lot of money on trying to beat the web.