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> we can build complex cross-platform experiences Sounds good for the developer but as a user who gives a shit? I miss my native desktop applications! They wer

• strogonoff 2y ago
  In this case, good for the developer is good for the user. As users, we get 1) tons more of those (since they’re easier to build, with one codebase that runs on literally every modern computing device, from phones to tables to laptops) 2) without being locked into a walled garden 3) fairly securely (heavily sandboxed, unlike desktop apps). The sheer number of cool things that got posted on HN in recent years leveraging these APIs.
• bigyabai 2y ago
  Sounds good for the user, but as a developer who gives a shit? I'm not porting my webapps to your tinker-toy OS for marginal return on my investment. That's redundant work that I'm not being compensated for, it doesn't matter how lickable the buttons are or how much of your 16gb of RAM I'm wasting.
  • strogonoff 2y ago
    > I'm not porting my webapps to your tinker-toy OS for marginal return on my investment. Even more so if there is no return in the first place. Fun toy exploration-style projects, or something to scratch an itch. Remember the GUI for ffmpeg filter graph (that also encodes the video client-side), remember retro music trackers… The kind of stuff people can and do build in single-digit days is perhaps the best thing left about this otherwise bleak post-small post-2.0 age of Web.