[jenadine]

Web UI is fine for web applications, obviously.

But for desktop applications it is bloated, a big attack surface.

HTML/CSS is made for online documents, and using it for applications is a bit hack that happen to work, but hides a huge ton of complexity behind frameworks and frameworks of frameworks with leaky abstractions and each their own caveat.

[ngruhn]

> a big attack surface

Wdym? At least web apps are sandboxed by default in contrast to native.

[pjmlp]

Depends on which OS we're talking about.

[pyth0]

Under which OS would a website not be sandboxed? It's the browser doing the sandboxing, not the OS.

[pjmlp]

I am talking about native applications.

[tapirl]

web UI is slow, this is only reason when I don't it.

[thomashabets2]

I'm not a frontend developer, but seems fast to me. I'm surprised that the UI portion of this example takes so little CPU: https://youtu.be/7k0JNT6itaI

Now, the rest of the DSP code sure is faster in native.

What are examples where web UI is too slow for you?

Or do you mean large apps written in JS, which is a different topic?

[tapirl]

Slow means many: * long program launch times * inconsistent frame rates during runtime * noticeable lag in user interaction

[thomashabets2]

That's neither examples nor a clarification if you're talking about JS or WASM.

[tapirl]

No specific examples. Just general GUI apps.