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are you deliberately not getting the point for some reason? How big is considered bloated in native apps, how big can a native app can get before it hurts acces
by nsonha 3y ago
are you deliberately not getting the point for some reason? How big is considered bloated in native apps, how big can a native app can get before it hurts accessibility because people cannot download it? Is it a few MB?
Web apps are soon going to be if not already matching native apps in terms of complexity yet we are still distracted from the real problem and quibble about some arbitrary and frankly pathetic code size restriction. Fix the root problem with PWA or something.
- troupo 3y ago> How big is considered bloated in native apps, how big can a native app can get before it hurts accessibility because people cannot download it? I'd say if it takes more than 50 megabytes to display a list of text, it's a problem :) > yet we are still distracted from the real problem Yes, I agree, "how broken the entire web stack" is the main problem. And the ungodly amounts of javascript you end up for the simplest problems is the symptom. However, neither caching nor PWA are the specific main problems in the web's brokenness :)
- nsonha 3y ago> the ungodly amounts of javascript you end up for the simplest problems replace javascript with any native programming language, this has been always a problem with UI programming, but it's not THAT big of a problem because in other platforms people download the app once, instead of every time. There is a long list of problems in software engineering, but sorry to disagree with you, "the binary/script is too big" is no where near the top.