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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by rpastuszak on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @11:39AM (#14088981)
How about PWA, Service Workers, WebAssembly? Thousands of developers are working hard on improving the UX, reduce battery usage, wasted CPU cycles, network traffic, latency.
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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by bobwaycott on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @01:53PM (#14090609)
All of this because they're externalizing costs onto users through SPAs and other go-to practices that force all the work onto users' devices.
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