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Kill the browser as an app platform and go back to installation/dll hell? No thanks :)
This is basically already happening with Electron apps.
I find this unconvincing. Every negative thing said about the web is true of every other platform, so far. It just seems to ignore how bad software has always been (on average). "Web development is slowly reinventing the 1990's." The 90s were slowly reinventing UNIX and stuff invented at Bell Labs. "Web apps are impossible to secure." Programs in the 90s were written in C and C++. C is impossible to secure. C++ is im…
This guy is clearly not a web developer.
That made me remember something: compatibility. I like web apps because they will run on my Linux machine and on all other people's Windows machines. What is your solution to that, angry guy from the article?
Also, please provide solutions to:
* the dangers of installing other people's software to your computer -- dangers that practically inexist in web apps; * the friction of getting people to try out your apps.
I find this unconvincing. Every negative thing said about the web is true of every other platform, so far. It just seems to ignore how bad software has always been (on average). "Web development is slowly reinventing the 1990's." The 90s were slowly reinventing UNIX and stuff invented at Bell Labs. "Web apps are impossible to secure." Programs in the 90s were written in C and C++. C is impossible to secure. C++ is im…
> "Web development is slowly reinventing the 1990's." > The 90s were slowly reinventing UNIX and stuff invented at Bell Labs. Yes, this reminds me of: "Wasn't all this done years ago at Xerox PARC? (No one remembers what was really done at PARC, but everyone else will assume you remember something they don't.)" [1] > "Buffers that don’t specify their length" > Is this really a common problem in web apps? Most web app…
No it wouldn't. It wouldn't fix sql injection and it also wouldn't fix the path bug the op linked.
The problem is not length, it is context unaware strings. The problem is our obsession with primitive types that pervade our codebases.
There's one big problem with killing the web: Apple's App Store. You can make all the new platforms you want, but they will never be allowed to replace the App Store for distribution. The web is the only platform that can do distribution outside of the App Store on iOS and Apple will never allow a second one. That means your platform can't have hyperlinks between apps, can't have a no-install experience, can't do jus…
Sure you can.
iOS - https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Ge...
Android - https://developer.android.com/training/app-links/deep-linkin...
UWP - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/launch-resume/w...
I find this unconvincing. Every negative thing said about the web is true of every other platform, so far. It just seems to ignore how bad software has always been (on average). "Web development is slowly reinventing the 1990's." The 90s were slowly reinventing UNIX and stuff invented at Bell Labs. "Web apps are impossible to secure." Programs in the 90s were written in C and C++. C is impossible to secure. C++ is im…
I agree - nothing new. Reason: next generation of developers has to make the same mistakes as the previous generation. I mean why wouldn't they? It's not like there is any institutional memory in this profession.
It's probably not realistic, but I would love to see the web be completely thrown out and replaced with something reasonable. I write a decent amount of native code. I write Rust, C, and x64 assembly. I think I'm pretty good at this stuff. But the web is too much for me. Any time I think I'd like to do something with the web and sit down to learn, it's completely overwhelming. I've never been able to put together a c…
So, I really think there is a competency issue here. However, I don't believe that it is restricted to the web; it is true for every platform. It is just that learning web technologies seems to be a better choice if you are new to programming as one can use those skills for almost every platform. (yeah you can use almost every language to develop for multiple platforms, but come on even Microsoft is using web tech for vscode)