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> Honestly, I wish we could just skip straight to nothing but web apps Why must you curse us like that? Web apps became such a clusterfuck because HTML and the
by ASalazarMX 4y ago
> Honestly, I wish we could just skip straight to nothing but web apps
Why must you curse us like that? Web apps became such a clusterfuck because HTML and the world-wide-web were never intended to run applications, but more and more was piled upon it until it somehow did.
Apps in the browser have shown undeniable advantages, but now that we've seen what we need, why not design a cross-platform toolkit that allows web apps through a protocol actually designed for applications. Something like Java/Flash tried to do, but using what we learned about web apps, back ends, and standardization.
- aaomidi 4y agoHTTP never intended to be anything other than content delivery pipe. Protocols evolve.
- ASalazarMX 4y agoMeant HTML, comment corrected.
- frodowtf 4y agoYou mean WebAssembly?
- mike_hearn 4y agoLet me know what you think of this attempt at such a platform: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oDBw4fWyRNug3_f5mXWdlgDI4J5AbxVWKEeYr6hscT8/edit https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oDBw4fWyRNug3_f5mXWdlgDI... By the way, one of the wild-card impacts of GPT-4 might be that native apps arise again. It's very good at translating code from one platform to another.