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Re:I can only think that modern front end development has fa... by chrononaut on Sunday April 04, 2021 @09:21PM (#26694418)
As someone who doesn't do neither front-end nor back-end development I think this comment does the best job in this thread summarizing pitfalls I've observed as a user.

Although you probably (?) want to add that OS maintainers are slowly turning their repository of available OS-level applications into walled gardens, which I could see may push some developers to currently prefer web application implementations.

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Re:I can only think that modern front end development has fa... by BackBlast on Sunday April 04, 2021 @11:47PM (#26695119)
The web is the closest we have to an open universal platform. If you want the most bang for the buck as a business in developing widely accessible software, you build a website/webapp first.
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