Show HN: Neverinstall – A platform to bring desktop applications to the browser

Re:Show HN: Neverinstall – A platform to bring desktop appli... by tempodox on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @08:15AM (#27905255)

If a machine is too weak to run an app compiled to native code, how is downloading a JS version and running that any better? If anything, it would need more RAM and more CPU, not less, apart from the additional network bandwidth.

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Re:Show HN: Neverinstall – A platform to bring desktop appli... by quenix on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @08:22AM (#27905310)

> how is downloading a JS version and running that any better?

That's not really what this app seems to do. When you run an application on this neverinstall product, it doesn't magically transpile the native app into JavaScript. The app still runs natively on a real virtual server on a server farm somewhere.

The only JavaScript your browser downloads & interprets is the networking & rendering code necessary to connect to what is essentially a VPS.

But yes, I agree. This is a network bandwidth (+ privacy!) nightmare.

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Re:Show HN: Neverinstall – A platform to bring desktop appli... by tomc1985 on Thursday July 22, 2021 @12:13PM (#27920684)

It's Remote-Desktop-as-a-Service

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Re:Show HN: Neverinstall – A platform to bring desktop appli... by 2000yeshu on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @08:22AM (#27905313)

This is not running the code on your browser instead it is just live streaming the frames and then rendering the pixels on your your browser.

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Re:Show HN: Neverinstall – A platform to bring desktop appli... by breakfastduck on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @08:17AM (#27905269)

Yeah ironically browsers insane RAM consumption means your 'thin clients' would need to be reasonably powerful to run this anyway.

Not to mention that to run multiple apps and have them be visible means you need multiple instances of the video streaming active...

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