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With wasm, I see a future where the browser and thus web technologies are a UI toolkit for a Linux desktop environment. It already is, people hardly use GTK and

With wasm, I see a future where the browser and thus web technologies are a UI toolkit for a Linux desktop environment. It already is, people hardly use GTK and qt anymore except for desktop environments or embedded like on cars due to performance limitations. It would be cursed to see a browser running within a browser. But then replacing a desktop environment might be the limit of replacing GTK qt and other UI toolkits with web technologies, making it unnecessary and opposite to the reason people use Linux which is performance

thomashabets2 1mo ago
I agree. Browser APIs don't have as much coverage as native APIs, but I would say that by far most UIs should be in the browser nowadays. Quake can run in the browser, so in my opinion so can the likes of Photoshop. Maybe the latest AAA game is a different beast, but that's a tiny edge case. Websites instead of apps on mobile is something that basically always sucks, but I don't see the same on desktop. Just build your UIs in WASM already. :-) > It would be cursed to see a browser running within a browser It's been done.
- WorldPeas 1mo ago
  gio with golang is a great place to start imo
- necovek 1mo ago
  > Websites instead of apps on mobile is something that basically always sucks I find it's the opposite: on my computer, I want native apps, but on the phone, it is very hard to manage a large collection of single use apps because I do not have a keyboard to quickly navigate between them.
  - pipe2devnull 1mo ago
    If you are on an iPhone you can add a website to the Home Screen and it functions as a dedicated app essentially and the opened instance is treated separately from safari
    - not2b 1mo ago
      It is the same on Android.
    - necovek 1mo ago
      Uhm, I am saying that I do not want a 100 apps (website-based or native) on my phone because this is hard to manage without better human-computer interfaces like a big screen and physical keyboard. So I am not sure how making a web page into an app actually helps me? When they are a web page I frequent, typing a few letters in the browser URL bar gives me the URL to click on and get there.
      - pipe2devnull 1mo ago
        You can type into the search bar to search for apps on your phone. I don’t really bother with things on my home screen
        necovek 1mo ago
        At least on my up-to-date Pixel phone, home screen search bar only searches the web (by default).
password4321 1mo ago
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thomashabets2 1mo ago

I agree. Browser APIs don't have as much coverage as native APIs, but I would say that by far most UIs should be in the browser nowadays. Quake can run in the browser, so in my opinion so can the likes of Photoshop. Maybe the latest AAA game is a different beast, but that's a tiny edge case. Websites instead of apps on mobile is something that basically always sucks, but I don't see the same on desktop. Just build your UIs in WASM already. :-) > It would be cursed to see a browser running within a browser It's been done.

WorldPeas 1mo ago
gio with golang is a great place to start imo
necovek 1mo ago
> Websites instead of apps on mobile is something that basically always sucks I find it's the opposite: on my computer, I want native apps, but on the phone, it is very hard to manage a large collection of single use apps because I do not have a keyboard to quickly navigate between them.
- pipe2devnull 1mo ago
  If you are on an iPhone you can add a website to the Home Screen and it functions as a dedicated app essentially and the opened instance is treated separately from safari
  - not2b 1mo ago
    It is the same on Android.
  - necovek 1mo ago
    Uhm, I am saying that I do not want a 100 apps (website-based or native) on my phone because this is hard to manage without better human-computer interfaces like a big screen and physical keyboard. So I am not sure how making a web page into an app actually helps me? When they are a web page I frequent, typing a few letters in the browser URL bar gives me the URL to click on and get there.
    - pipe2devnull 1mo ago
      You can type into the search bar to search for apps on your phone. I don’t really bother with things on my home screen
      - necovek 1mo ago
        At least on my up-to-date Pixel phone, home screen search bar only searches the web (by default).

password4321 1mo ago

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