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The browser is an operating system now. Chromebooks proved that a long time ago. Every single feature of a native app is implemented in the browser now. There's already multiple different versions of "apps in browsers" (PWAs, SPAs, etc). It's just taking the industry a very long time to come to grips with the fact that they are writing dynamically-downloaded-and-interpreted apps for an operating system in an operating system in a scripting language that uses assembly to implement another virtual machine. They can't come right out and say it because it's ridiculous. But that's what it is.

We failed at making network protocols, so every protocol improvement now goes over HTTPS. We failed at making universal virtual machine-based applications, so every new app is in the browser. We failed to bridge the gaps of client-based, server-based and p2p computing, so we build all 3 into one interface. None of academic computer science seems to reflect this, and we still write most of our code by hand like it's the 1970's. We use fixed-width text-based 80-character terminals embedded in 8K OLED displays. Our telephones have as much processing power, memory and storage as our desktop computers and use batteries that last for 2 days (and are 1/10th the size), but we haven't yet standardized on one way to create new lines in a text file.

We're farmers from the 17th century working at a biotech startup.