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> What can today’s browsers do that web development hasn’t caught up to? With WebGPU, WASM, WebXR, WebBluetooth, WebUSB, WebTransport and more already/soon ena
by capableweb 3y ago
> What can today’s browsers do that web development hasn’t caught up to?
With WebGPU, WASM, WebXR, WebBluetooth, WebUSB, WebTransport and more already/soon enabled, I'm fairly sure we're just scratching the surface currently on what use cases can be built with today web technologies.
Also, things outside browsers are changing enough that the use cases also expand. Bandwidth, latency, availability and more are also improving, enabling fancy stuff we couldn't dream about some years ago. The other day one of the HN submissions loaded a multi-GB file for client-side evaluation of a Stable Diffusion model, as just one example.
- wslh 3y ago100%. Now those technologies offer an independent platform way of having a new kind of "OS".