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That is because the actual alternatives to JS such as Flash, Silverlight and Java Applets were much worse. Native apps are bound by the platform's walled garden
by farseer 1y ago
That is because the actual alternatives to JS such as Flash, Silverlight and Java Applets were much worse. Native apps are bound by the platform's walled garden and practically undiscoverable, hence the need for web apps.
- dudeinjapan 1y agoCome on now. Flash, security holes aside, was way better! It even had ActionScript which was essentially JavaScript.
- farseer 1y agoI was a professional flash/flex/air developer once. And Steve Jobs put me out of a job when he refused flash on the iPhone. The security and performance bottlenecks were real and by the time Adobe mostly fixed them in later version of the flash player, it was too late. Most devs and companies had abandoned the sinking ship.
- immibis 1y agoNative apps. Plain HTML (sometimes with server-side apps). When Javascript was becoming a problem, native apps weren't yet the lock-in ecosystem they were today; arguably that ecosystem is only possible because everything became a web app first.