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by coldtea 3893 days ago
Only the simpler or the worse ones -- trading speed, utility, connection to the OS, etc for ease of development.
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vfrogger 3893 days ago
meh, if it's a single developer, asking native apps for every platform on a donation ware doesn't seem fair to me.
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coldtea 3893 days ago
No, I mean in the general case of web apps replacing desktop apps. I'm not convinced Atom for example will ever overcome its pain points that are a result of the technology it uses (breaking down on larger files, slowness, GC pauses etc).

Of course for smaller shops, donation or freeware etc, it's fine.

And for apps like Slack, which are glorified web pages.

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Mimick 3893 days ago
It's more like for using the skills they know than ease of development. Web is more common this days that developers fear the working directly with an OS...

Years ago developers used to code websites on languages intended for the OS (tools to make that easier was there) and today we see the opposite.

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