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lkschubert8 | 2 years ago

It _sucks_ compared to some other non existent platform. The adoption both by users and developers seems to indicate it is the best thing we have produced for this so far.

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illiarian|2 years ago

> It _sucks_ compared to some other non existent platform.

Those platforms exist: desktop and mobile. People are so enamoured with the web and/or have no experience outside the web, and so don't know how insanely more performant almost literally everything outside the web is.

j-krieger|2 years ago

Sorry, but no. You‘re wrong. „Desktop“ isn‘t a platform, it‘s a loose term for native applications running directly on your OS. „Desktop“ is extremely fragmented: Windows, MacOS, Linux. The latter is fragmented as well.

I will gladly take every disadvantage of the web to deliver my products to every platform. The alternative is not shipping to MacOS and Linux systems.

lkschubert8|2 years ago

But those platforms _suck_ in terms of time to market/time to add features in a cross platform way. That's the terms that they lose to the web on.

Turing_Machine|2 years ago

I have an M2 with lots-o-RAM. Not everything needs to be "performant".

I'm old enough to remember the same arguments being made when people started using C rather than ASM.