[jcynix]

Nice exercise, and as a local solution obviously better than all this "give your data and trust me" stuff. But why must everything nowadays be a browser-based tool? I'm still happy with tools like pdfunite from https://poppler.freedesktop.org/

[ry8806]

totally understand. I think distribution on the Web is a lot easier than building desktop applications for Linux/Mac/Windows. Also, sometimes I need to merge pdfs when I'm on my Android device, which would be another target to build an application for. Web makes it easy for me across a huge variety of devices

[jcynix]

In Android I usw Termux which is a more or less Debian installation. But I understand that it's some kind of "generation conflict" where younger developers are more web centric than oldtimers, who know about the command line among other things ;-0