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Re:Ask HN: Can the ARM Macs/PCs end the web as we know it? by bryik on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @10:24PM (#25216548)
So the choice would be: build an Android app and an iOS app, or build a web app? Eh, I'd rather build a web app.
Re:Ask HN: Can the ARM Macs/PCs end the web as we know it? by omarforgotpwd on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @11:46PM (#25216892)
What would users like to use more?
Re:Ask HN: Can the ARM Macs/PCs end the web as we know it? by tokn on Thursday November 26, 2020 @03:57AM (#25218199)
If you’re ever in the position where you have to market an app you’ll soon discover actually just getting users to commit to installing something which they’ve never heard of is a massive hurdle - compared to clicking a link in a browser.
Re:Ask HN: Can the ARM Macs/PCs end the web as we know it? by omarforgotpwd on Thursday November 26, 2020 @09:57AM (#25220517)
there’s definitely pros and cons for both, depending on what you’re trying to do
Re:Ask HN: Can the ARM Macs/PCs end the web as we know it? by leoh on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @11:23PM (#25216781)
lol — have you tried to engage, in a serious way, with the JavaScript ecosystem? It is a _dumpster fire_ to produce anything that is reasonably as interactive and complex as an iOS Application.

I do agree, however, with the idea that some things ought _not_ be apps, especially things that are dead simple, for which it _truly is_ easier to develop a web application.

Re:Ask HN: Can the ARM Macs/PCs end the web as we know it? by emteycz on Thursday November 26, 2020 @01:52AM (#25217537)
Lol, seems like you haven't tried to engage with the web ecosystem in a serious way. Web apps with TypeScript and React/Vue/Svelte are the easiest, most productive way of making software that runs immediately anywhere, and the ecosystem has everything (don't forget about Wasm).

SwiftUI is nice, but needs a lot more years until it reaches the level of React.

Android libs are a joke.

(I write enterprise React applications last 6 years, and used to work with WinForms before that.)

Re:Ask HN: Can the ARM Macs/PCs end the web as we know it? by leoh on Saturday November 28, 2020 @10:50PM (#25242799)
This is totally untrue when you start building an application and care about superior interactivity and sophisticated UI/UX patterns
Re:Ask HN: Can the ARM Macs/PCs end the web as we know it? by emteycz on Sunday November 29, 2020 @05:11AM (#25244158)
Yeah, now I can see that you have indeed never really tried.
Re:Ask HN: Can the ARM Macs/PCs end the web as we know it? by leoh on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @04:44PM (#25270365)
>Yeah, now I can see that you have indeed never really tried.

This is totally untrue!

I am open to the possibility, however, that I have been working with a challenging front-end codebase and that, on that basis, I may not have seen the best that JS has to offer. But in my experience — intermittently building toy iOS apps the last few years and having also built some production react apps in a large codebase (perhaps not a fair apples-to-apples comparison) — iOS has felt much more straightforward for creating apps with idiomatic UI/UX.

Forgive me if I came off as a bit glib. But I do tentatively, at least, still hold my original position; though am open to the possibility of being wrong!