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Come on, there are so many native cross-platform solutions which are easy to go and much less bloated than web engine, e.g. Qt/GTK+/wxWidgets/Xamarin/etc.
by niutech 3y ago
Come on, there are so many native cross-platform solutions which are easy to go and much less bloated than web engine, e.g. Qt/GTK+/wxWidgets/Xamarin/etc.
- anymouse123456 3y agoNow take that beautiful application you have made and your customers want, and beg the trolls who sit between you and them for permission to distribute it. Assuming you get said permission some weeks later, now hand over double-digit percentages of your top-line revenue to these despicable rent-seekers, do the same with your tax payments and notice how you're left with less than 30% of the value you have created.
- AlecSchueler 3y agoAll of those would require an user to download and install something, no? How do you push updates?
- niutech 3y agoYes, this is how classic software works. It can download updates in the background, just like e.g. web browsers do. It will be more performant than web apps.
- AlecSchueler 3y agoThat's quite a lot of extra code to write. Any app you want to share this way now needs to think about networking, self updating, version management etc.