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Re:Takeaways from KotlinConf 2017 by pjmlp on Friday January 12, 2018 @01:37AM (#16130848)
In five years the Electron craziness will be gone.
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Re:Takeaways from KotlinConf 2017 by bonesss on Friday January 12, 2018 @03:19AM (#16131327)
And, judging from what was going on 5 years ago, whatever replaces it will be even crazier and trendier :)
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Re:Takeaways from KotlinConf 2017 by pjmlp on Friday January 12, 2018 @03:59AM (#16131477)
My bet, browser will be reduced to yet another general purpose VM, with the new trend being WebAssembly + Canvas/WebGL.

Or back to pure native.

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Re:Takeaways from KotlinConf 2017 by abiox on Friday January 12, 2018 @03:30AM (#16131373)
what will replace it?
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Re:Takeaways from KotlinConf 2017 by pjmlp on Friday January 12, 2018 @03:56AM (#16131461)
Native apps, just like it happened on Windows with XUL and MSHTML apps.
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