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Re:Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept by hparadiz on Monday May 31, 2021 @06:46PM (#27348915)
Ironically VSCode is a great example of a "web app" that does almost all of it's work on disk.

To be fair others exist. Element (Riot.im) saves your backup keys to disk on demand.

I agree. More of this please.

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Re:Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept by shrimp_emoji on Monday May 31, 2021 @07:23PM (#27349189)
The best thing about "web apps" like that is that they're available on desktops that aren't Windows. ;)
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Re:Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept by tsimionescu on Monday May 31, 2021 @11:59PM (#27350607)
I don't think that writing a native app using Electron qualifies it as a web app. VSCode is not normally used from the browser, it is downloaded and used more or less fully disconnected from the MS infrastructure you used to download it (give or take some plugin updates).
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