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by vamur 3408 days ago
With local apps there are issues of updates, security and platform lock-in. No such issues with web apps. And thanks to modern JS engines, web apps are now fast enough for most tasks.

>>but it's slow and unable to keep up with edits > 500 nodes

It is perfectly possible to build a fast JS app. The one in your example is not well optimized.
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Piskvorrr 3408 days ago
It is also perfectly possible to build a clean PHP app. Yet, the overwhelming majority of PHP apps are piles of hacks and the overwhelming majority of JS apps are bloated behemoths, because those are languages that are sloppy or hungry (respectively) by default, these are the paths of their least resistance. With the current "ship it first, fix it maybe later, never pause to think it through" mentality, all you'll ever get is the default.

(And don't get me started on Web security, or rather lack thereof: security is not inherent to web apps"; DROP TABLES; --

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wila 3408 days ago
> With local apps there are issues of updates, security and platform lock-in. No such issues with web apps.

With web apps there are issues such as vendor lock-in of your data (like doing accounting in a webapp) try getting your data out.

Vendor updating to a new non functional version of their web app while you liked the old one.

Security issues because your data is now on the internet instead of on a local PC.

You are just trading one set of limitations for another and also removing your ability to address issues by yourself.

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vamur 3408 days ago
>>With web apps there are issues such as vendor lock-in of your data

You can use self-hosted web apps or a vendor that allows export of data. You can use a vendor that allows loading/saving data locally.

>>Security issues because your data is now on the internet instead of on a local PC.

The same is true for most local apps. How do you know they are not leaking your data?

>>Vendor updating to a new non functional version of their web app while you liked the old one.

True for local apps as well

>>You are just trading one set of limitations for another and also removing your ability to address issues by yourself.

There are always limitations, but web apps have less, which is why they are winning.

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wila 3408 days ago
Updating a local app is under your own control.

While self hosting webapps certainly is possible, this is not an option for the average user.

With a local app you can make it certain that it isn't leaking by not connecting it to the internet?

I guess we will have to agree to disagree on this as you are clearly looking at this from a different angle as I do.

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jacobush 3408 days ago
Well, now the lock in is at the server side instead... Google Docs anyone?
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