Comment by oblio
13 hours ago
> The web seems to be perfectly composable too, out of <div>, <span>, <p> and a small subset of CSS, but doing this is considered an anti-pattern, and you're supposed to reach for the platform to find the closest thing to what you need, whereas reaching for a library or composing yourself is frowned upon.
The web has a gazillion libraries...
Yeah exactly. So does native. So what? Why is this a bad thing?
Native apps are downloaded upfront and the installation is largely separate accepted by users. Web users expect websites to download and be usable immediately.
Almost every website I visit has massive pop-ups I have to dismiss. Clearly a cached fat library GET would be less annoying than what I already put up with.
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