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Re:Ask HN: Why is everything in JavaScript changing so fast? by 27182818284 on Friday October 21, 2016 @10:47AM (#12760871)
>What's wrong with native apps?

Because you really don't need a native application to look up the time the local Thai place is open or if the local independent movie theater has a showing tonight. Installing two native apps to do that is burdensome on consumers and producers

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Re:Ask HN: Why is everything in JavaScript changing so fast? by adrianN on Friday October 21, 2016 @11:20AM (#12761132)
You don't need web applications to do that either. Simple HTML will do.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is everything in JavaScript changing so fast? by smonff on Friday October 21, 2016 @12:03PM (#12761527)
> Simple HTML will do.

It will, as a side effect, save 1G in RAM.

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