What’s your guys general thought on how everything is web based now? For me, I don’t really like it. I would just rather have an actual program that runs. But I am merely a user, not a programmer.

  • Typewar@infosec.pub
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    20 hours ago

    I used to be like this too. I thought it would be too mainstream to have a website rather than a natively compiled application running on the computer…

    And then my friend in high school started this thing on his laptop… a website… it was server side rendered… pretty satisfying… Then it took off…

    I think the web can be nice with the right mix. I’m personally not too fan of these pages that are just white if you don’t turn on JavaScript. It’s just a feeling, nothing special. From a business perspective it makes sense, to throw all the rendering to the devices to save cost.

    • GamingChairModel@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      From a business perspective it makes sense, to throw all the rendering to the devices to save cost.

      Not just to save cost. It’s basically OS-agnostic from the user’s point of view. The web app works fine in desktop Linux, MacOS, or Windows. In other words, when I’m on Linux I can have a solid user experience on apps that were designed by people who have never thought about Linux in their life.

      Meanwhile, porting native programs between OSes often means someone’s gotta maintain the libraries that call the right desktop/windowing APIs and behavior between each version of Windows, MacOS, and the windowing systems of Linux, not all of which always work in expected or consistent ways.