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by throwaway0asd 1417 days ago
> Am I wrong?

Kind of. It’s more that you're missing an important point. Software developers don’t want to be isolated to a platform.

I am writing my own higher level operating system in Typescript. In runs in the browser with a localhost Node instance or with Tauri. I provide a run time configuration for Electron but I cannot officially support Electron because it provide no support for SHA3. This means my application can almost equally anywhere that runs Node or Tauri.

The goal of this OS I’m writing is to solve for decentralization. I cannot do that if I am centrally tied to a single lower level OS. I don’t need identity management or DNS. I just need a network and a collision-free tiered identity scheme.

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But you ARE tied to the web platform, which IS an OS. Just kind of a crap one.

Look into web assembly.