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One thing I'm finding... The browser is just a horrible, least-common-denominator, environment for running an application. I spent the 2010s in the desktop wor
by gwbas1c 3y ago
One thing I'm finding... The browser is just a horrible, least-common-denominator, environment for running an application.
I spent the 2010s in the desktop world. The Mac / Windows APIs are generally well designed. A lot of the abstraction and niceties comes from whatever frameworks are shipped with your application.
The browser forces you to use Javascript. Even if you use WASM, you have to use Javascript, because you still need to call back into Javascript to interact with many of the lowest-level APIs.
The browser UI is based on parsing complicated text; instead of the API and object-based models that we have on the desktop. It's really absurd, IMO.