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13415last Sunday at 4:27 PM4 repliesview on HN

No wonder everyone is building web apps. Operating systems are doing their best to make themselves obsolete.


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pjmlplast Monday at 8:30 AM

As someone coding since 1986, with experience in native and Web development, and despite earning most of my money in Web, I assert it is lazyness.

There is no Web without operating systems, or do you imagine browsers run on pixie dust?

kccqzylast Sunday at 8:44 PM

I’ll take this standardized directory format over the typical docker web app where there is no standardization and files can be strewn anywhere the developer wants. You `docker exec` into it and can’t find anything.

lurking_swelast Sunday at 11:59 PM

i think you meant everyone builds web apps because they want to target all platforms / hardware, they don’t care about performance (cpu usage, memory usage, etc), and they are easier to “deploy” in many respects.

Pros and cons to each. Not everything needs to be a native app. Some things SHOULD be native apps…i’m looking at you slack and friends.

mikecshlast Sunday at 8:06 PM

I don't follow - can you elaborate?

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