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0 pointsopenrisk1y ago0 comments

There is certainly a strong case for the web platform as an all-weather gui platform but on actual mobile and desktops of here and now it is not a no-brainer choice. Its document oriented nature fits some use cases better than others. Not to mention that with the near exclusive focus on (incompatible) javascript frameworks it is not exactly clear even what "html" means...

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shortrounddev21y ago· 2 in thread

It seems to have become the no-brainer choice. Lots of mobile apps just load html views, and probably most desktop apps I see these days are just electron apps. You can reason about the best use case for HTML vs XAML vs Swift, but it seems that the speed of development time and the insane amount of community support out there has made the web the clear winner

skydhash1y ago

And the quality of software has gone downhill. HTML and CSS can be RAD, but they rely on millions of line of code in the browser engine while having subpar models for gui layouts and custom widgets. And building a native app is not that necessarily complex, it's just different.

shortrounddev21y ago

The market prioritizes speed of development and cost of labor over runtime efficiency. Thus, until native app frameworks become easy and fast to develop for, we will continue to see everything turn into a web app

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