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> Browsers are massive, complex, and resource hungry. Sure, I'll just run my application inside another complex application inside a complex OS. What's another
by jauntywundrkind 2y ago
> Browsers are massive, complex, and resource hungry. Sure, I'll just run my application inside another complex application inside a complex OS. What's another layer? But actually, raw JS, HTML, and CSS are too slow to work with, so I'll add another layer and do it with React.
That's just your opinion, and you're overgeneralizing one framework as the only way.
A 2009 mobile phone did pretty damned awesome with the web. The web is quite fast if you use it well. Sites like GitHub and YouTube use web components & can be extremely fast & featureful.
Folks complain about layers of web tech but what's available out of box is incredible. And it's a strength not a weakness that there are many many ways to do webdev, that we have good options & keep refining or making new attempts. The web keeps enduring, having strong fundamentals that allow iteration & exploration. The Extensible Web Manifesto is alive and well, is the cornerstone supporting many different keystone styles of development. https://github.com/extensibleweb/manifesto https://github.com/extensibleweb/manifesto
It's just your opinion again and again that the web so bad and ke, all without evidence. It's dirty shitty heresay.
Native OSes are massive, complex, and resource hungry and better replaced by the universal hypermedia. We should get rid of the extra layers of non-web that don't help, that are complex and bloated.