Is a /s missing here?

> It's huge and hard to distribute.

That's why it's distributed with every mainstream OS (except for Windows if you don't use WSL) and many OSes outside the mainstream so frequently.

> This should be a web app, plain and simple.

Do we really need YACPWA (Yet Another Crossword Puzzle Web App)? Someone had an itch, scratched it, and distributed it.

> It would get 10,000 times as many users.

And?

Making a large profit and growing 100X every month is very hard with an emacs package. You must understand that the only reason to develop software is to make an obscene amount of money?

They should pivot this package to crosswords as a service and ensure growth, maybe seek some funding while they are at it.

/s

If big fat electron apps are to become the standard, users who are content with older, more stable, slimmer software will have to be brutally mocked online. We've seen this technique used here on this site as a way to help market such diverse technologies as Rust, VSCode, Wayland, and System D.

What are you talking about, this is a package for Emacs, which already is a web app: https://beepb00p.xyz/cloudmacs.html

The author's focus is pretty clearly not to get as many users as possible. What's wrong with that?

i guess that there should also be a multi-region and multi-az kubernetes cluster to pre-render puzzles server side, right ?

and a highly-scalable distributed nosql database to store puzzles at a webscale level, also.

and don't forget a planet-scale, anycast-enabled cdn to deliver puzzles with low latencies.

Lol