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by James-Livesey
1344 days ago
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Yeah I understand, there are certainly a lot of interfaces out there that are built on the web and because of all the JS they use, they can feel really clunky. The reason why using the web as a platform for this system is because it is — in my opinion — the most viable tool we have at the moment to build cross-platform apps and services that work on all modern desktop computers and mobile devices from the same codebase (that is, without having to go down the React Native or Flutter route). I do consider performance issues with the web to be quite serious, which is why I've avoided large JS frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue etc. and have gone for a lightweight one that was made specifically for the project (mainly as an experiment). The results do show: the system is rather responsive on an original PinePhone (and I should imagine is really smooth on a PinePhone Pro due to its much better specs), and you can get to the LiveG OS lock screen within 10 seconds of booting the system in VirtualBox. But yeah, I do see what you mean by the web being... clunky in general. You say about the web being "fragile" and "a house of cards built on shifting sands", and yeah, the culture around developing web services has largely been to use waaay too many dependencies to achieve simple tasks. |
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