Re:Ask HN: Writing an os in React, good idea?
by bananicorn on Friday September 29, 2017 @06:51AM
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This looks a lot like a joke-question, but whatever.
Well, technically it's possible to write an OS in React, if you're basically just running a browser and do everything inside that.
Since a lot of desktop apps nowadays are just repackaged versions of chrome with a single website in them, you might actually have a better user experience for /some/ use-cases.
But if you actually plan on doing that, please just make an browser-based OS that is a wrapper for this site:
Edit:
I'm only answering semi-seriously because sometimes it's the stupid and laughable questions that foster new, maybe even completely unrelated ideas.
Well, technically it's possible to write an OS in React, if you're basically just running a browser and do everything inside that.
Since a lot of desktop apps nowadays are just repackaged versions of chrome with a single website in them, you might actually have a better user experience for /some/ use-cases.
But if you actually plan on doing that, please just make an browser-based OS that is a wrapper for this site:
http://www.windows93.net/
Edit: I'm only answering semi-seriously because sometimes it's the stupid and laughable questions that foster new, maybe even completely unrelated ideas.