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Sometimes it feels like those who would develop the next React should really just try to develop the next web browser. Why spend all this time and effort buildi

Sometimes it feels like those who would develop the next React should really just try to develop the next web browser. Why spend all this time and effort building what is essentially a massive wad of chewing gum and paperclips to take what is essentially a glorified document reader and make it into an application platform? We can run other executables on our local. The web itself is the problem and what needs to die to give way to something new.

skydhash 1y ago
A lot of those “apps” are just dynamic documents and forms that still fits the web model. It’s just that SPA is a bad architecture for them. Why push rendering to the client if all the data comes from the backend or need a round trip through there? But something like Figma, Slack is indead a huge hack in terms of technology, but it would be way less code and more performance to just have native desktop apps.
duped 1y ago
The honest answer is because all your users have that wad of chewing gum and paper clips installed on their devices already, and you don't need an IT admin to whitelist your executable to install it in the contexts where that's still necessary.