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Re:Instant Loading Web Apps with an Application Shell Archit... by pikzen on Friday November 20, 2015 @11:20AM (#10601981)
Let's get web apps' APIs up to par with native APIs first, then maybe we can talk. Oh, and let's get it up to par performance wise. Because right now, in both those categories, web apps are terrible.

Until then, I'll keep my native apps thank you very much.

(And I didn't even start on Javascript, because you can transpile. But the itch is present :^))

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Re:Instant Loading Web Apps with an Application Shell Archit... by ashark on Friday November 20, 2015 @11:54AM (#10602210)
Especially stop Web/JS stuff from chewing through battery and shoving everything else on the device out of RAM. If you expect users to be in your "app" more than a couple minutes a day (and it is in fact an app, and not just information presentation), please use native.
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