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by sangnoir 473 days ago
> It’s not exaggeration to say that the web has set UIs back by decades.

The trade-offs for the UI setback are unbeatable cross-platform compatibility, ease of distribution and a decent security model with sandboxing. MacOS only introduced desktop app sandboxing in the last 10 years, most desktop run software with user permissions which is not great.