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by morelisp 1369 days ago
No, you've assumed the question. "Applications are much harder to cache and start up fast" because you're defining "applications" to intentionally exclude architectures which are cachable and fast to start.

If I shipped a git repo viewer as an executable, nobody would be asking why it's not rather a txt/doc/PDF. It's unquestionably an application, not a document.