It’s time to kill the web app

Re:It’s time to kill the web app by microcolonel on Saturday September 23, 2017 @07:22PM (#15322323)

Admittedly few, but generally in native land you have the ability to plaster over platform deficiencies with equally-well-performing code. On the web, you can never really compete with the execution speed or integration of the native code in the browser, so you have to accept whatever is there.

I'd say OpenSSH (since SSH2) has a better track record than most webapps, as unfair a comparison as that is. In terms of local robustness, there's SeL4, which is also a bit unfair (since it took about a decade for a team of geniuses to prove enough properties to make it probably not very buggy).

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Re:It’s time to kill the web app by moosingin3space on Saturday September 23, 2017 @08:04PM (#15322475)

I wouldn't consider seL4 to be a "C project". Yes, their github repository is mostly C, but the process of writing seL4 was extremely involved: write the kernel in Haskell, then write it again in C, then prove that the C is equivalent to the Haskell. seL4 is ~9000 lines of C, ~600 lines of asm, and ~200,000 lines of Isabelle (theorem prover).

I don't disagree with your use of OpenSSH as an example.

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