[geofft]

Yup. As someone who can't tell an angular from an angle grinder but has read the ABI specs for every platform I use... the web does a lot of things right, and native code and assembly is where we see ourselves tethered to the bad design decisions of over four decades ago.

[fbreduc]

native code is not the problem... there are many libraries that abstract over platforms just like the web does.... the problem is people who make software that does not abstract away platform specifics