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by stijnstijn 511 days ago
It is indeed not quite a drop-in replacement for the 'real' Notepad, but I do find the complaint that you need to enable JS for something that has 'JS' in its name a little strange. That's the platform it was made for, it may not be a platform you enjoy using, and it could perhaps have been made on another platform, but it wasn't. That's hardly a reason to call it "not serious".
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Web apps are not a viable replacement for native apps, so I think it's a fair criticism.
I think they are most of the time. Most apps don't deserve to be installed on my computer for them to work. And there's no browser network bar nor browser plugins like uBlock Origin to control what they can do.

So native apps need to offer something more than "not a web app" to pay their rent on my system where they have often things like full filesystem access.