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or maybe just stop trying to force the round peg in a square hole. an application is surely not a document. they open documents. its conceptual, but it would ma
by skeezyboy 1y ago
or maybe just stop trying to force the round peg in a square hole. an application is surely not a document. they open documents. its conceptual, but it would make your life so much easier if you stopped trying to make a fully fledged platform out of what was essentially a rich text document viewer. java has since come along and given you pretty much write once, run anywhere and close to instant deployment with its applets
- porridgeraisin 1y agoWeb as a deployment platform has too many advantages for it to be ignored for distributing _anything_. We don't have to force a round peg into the square hole <!DOCTYPE html>. Let's make a new round hole <!DOCTYPE app> but keep using the amazing deployment platform.
- skeezyboy 1y agoitds be easier to just make an amazing deployment platform and code native, than the inverse. edit: if you can program
- porridgeraisin 1y agoIf it was, it would reflect in reality. But the web wins the "where shall we deploy this" fight every single time. For good reason. You mentioned java, People preferred literally electron over java.
- BrenBarn 1y agoReality isn't always good.
- b_e_n_t_o_n 1y ago<wasm src="/some-blob.wasm" /> might be enough.