Re:Moving from Native Apps to Progressive Web Apps
by josephg on Sunday November 13, 2016 @03:22AM
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My point is that the technical problems have been solved. That is to say, there aren't any new, difficult CS problems we have to figure out before we can bring the desktop up to par.
Instead solving this problem will 'just' require tons of work. We need to improve our compilation toolchains to allow native apps to load progressively. We'll need better ways to monitor and analyse application size & performance. We'll need new libraries and we'll need buy in from vendors. And as thats going on we need to convince developers to actually care about this stuff. Again, all these problems have been solved for the web. We 'just' need to backport all that stuff to native apps.
No question there's lots of work to do. But its all (obviously) solvable with code.
Instead solving this problem will 'just' require tons of work. We need to improve our compilation toolchains to allow native apps to load progressively. We'll need better ways to monitor and analyse application size & performance. We'll need new libraries and we'll need buy in from vendors. And as thats going on we need to convince developers to actually care about this stuff. Again, all these problems have been solved for the web. We 'just' need to backport all that stuff to native apps.
No question there's lots of work to do. But its all (obviously) solvable with code.