It _sucks_ compared to some other non existent platform. The adoption both by users and developers seems to indicate it is the best thing we have produced for this so far.
> It _sucks_ compared to some other non existent platform.
Those platforms exist: desktop and mobile. People are so enamoured with the web and/or have no experience outside the web, and so don't know how insanely more performant almost literally everything outside the web is.
Sorry, but no. You‘re wrong. „Desktop“ isn‘t a platform, it‘s a loose term for native applications running directly on your OS. „Desktop“ is extremely fragmented: Windows, MacOS, Linux. The latter is fragmented as well.
I will gladly take every disadvantage of the web to deliver my products to every platform. The alternative is not shipping to MacOS and Linux systems.
With that attitude you get Microsoft officially advertising their new Teams version that takes 9 seconds to show less than 1kb of text (3 seconds just to show the splashscreen).
Yes, we are running what essentially amounts to supercomputers. Why is it then that Slack still requires 20% CPU to show an animated emoji? Or that Matrix spikes to 60% CPU when scrolling through a largely empty channel? Or...
Those platforms exist: desktop and mobile. People are so enamoured with the web and/or have no experience outside the web, and so don't know how insanely more performant almost literally everything outside the web is.