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I’d argue that desktop native is also the most likely to introduce system breaking bugs, viruses, and malware. A web app is much safer from these types of issue
by taraindara 2y ago
I’d argue that desktop native is also the most likely to introduce system breaking bugs, viruses, and malware. A web app is much safer from these types of issues.
The result is people can use more efficient terminals to do most of what they need. And the powerful native machine is available when that extra power is justified.
- skydhash 2y agoThat's because the web browser is a sandbox. We have sandboxing technology for native apps.
- spacemanspiff01 2y agoWhat is a cross platform sandboxing technology for native apps?
- illegalmemory 2y agohttps://github.com/phylum-dev/birdcage https://github.com/phylum-dev/birdcage https://github.com/servo/gaol https://github.com/servo/gaol and several others ?
- stnmtn 2y agoThese clearly aren't comparable to the support of browsers. I know this metric isn't really an important signal, but they both have under 500 stars. If I'm a business evaluating whether to build my cross platform experience either on the web using the sandboxing of browsers vs smaller frameworks like this, it's basically not even a choice.
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