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Javascript was designed to be secure-by-default, and it takes a vast amount of effort to keep it that way Native apps were designed to be powerful-by-default,

Javascript was designed to be secure-by-default, and it takes a vast amount of effort to keep it that way Native apps were designed to be powerful-by-default, and the amount of effort to bolt security on after the fact is orders of magnitude more

Gigachad 3y ago
Not for mobile. The default is to have everything sensitive locked down.
- fomine3 3y ago
  They are victim of Apple's security horror story. Apple advertises their mobile app sandbox system is poor, to protect their dominated store.
aaomidi 3y ago
> Javascript was designed to be secure-by-default It absolutely wasn't, lol?
xdennis 3y ago
The sole criterion for JavaScript was to design something that could be shipped as fast as possible. The early browser wars were all about pumping features out. Security had nothing to do with it.