Comment by layer8
12 hours ago
> It makes web apps first class productivity applications.
They won’t be first-class as long as native UI still has the upper hand.
12 hours ago
> It makes web apps first class productivity applications.
They won’t be first-class as long as native UI still has the upper hand.
This battle is long won in favor of webtech in every realm but 3d/video editing/audio work/things that do gpu heavy lifting like game engines.
Outside those sort of spaces it’s hard to name a popular piece of software still on native that isn’t a wrapped webapp.
> video editing
cough CapCut cough
In which way does native UI have the upper hand, do you think? To me it seems like a lot of users are largely indifferent to this aspect (e.g. so many applications nowadays being Electron/browser based). If browsers keep gaining capabilities then it seems like this gap will get even smaller.
I’ve never used a webapp that felt nicer than native software, it’s always very clearly a compromise.
I can't tell what's a web app and what's native these days. Are you sure you can?
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