On Tuesday, 2 June 2015 at 23:04:30 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
On 06/02/2015 05:44 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Thankfully mobile OSes and desktop app stores seem to be on
the right
track to kill this.
http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2015/05/web_vs_native_l.html
+1billion
My god it's nice to see that finally acknowledged.
"Still, we web developers have spent the last six years in
denial. Our working assumption has been that all web sites
should be app-like, and therefore tooled up to the hilt."
Love it.
Thing is, one of the biggest reasons (likely even THE biggest
reason) for the giant "web for apps" push was the whole
no-install aspect. But then instead of actually, y'know,
creating a no-install for applications, which could have been
made and well-entrenched by now, the whole tech sector went and
blew (probably) billions in $ and time retrofitting "rich,
dynamic experience" into a document platform. And for all those
blown resources, it's STILL at least as much of a broken mess
as it was back when we still thought the IE/Netscape divergence
was the greatest damage we could ever inflict our unfortunate
web-based users.
And then on top of all that,
Java/Flash/JS/basic-freaking-displaying-a-stupid-little-image
demonstrated that even the whole purported "sandboxing" benefit
of web apps (and VMs for that matter) was a near total bust.
I have to disable javascript on amazon.com to be able to use the
site or else it brings my browser to a crawl.
I, for one, am in favor of scrapping javascript and replacing it
with lua. At least it has a decent JIT implementation.
fun tidbit, back when the benchmark's game had luajit on it,
luajit's _interpreter_ would beat V8 in every single benchmark.
