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by dataflow 825 days ago
I didn't say nobody wants this, I said no user wants this. We're not talking web servers, we're talking about Windows desktop apps here... with humans using them. User != admin != owner. "Web and cloud FaaS like AWS Lambda" don't have "users" (i.e. the kind who would say "this shouldn't exhaust my system resources" like the parent did). They're cattle, running batch jobs, and/or serving APIs that other client applications invoke...
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Web pages have users (JS has time limited execution and will be killed if the page hangs).
Are you under the impression web pages can access the Win32 API?