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Re:Launch HN: HyperLinq (YC S21) – Desktop trading terminal by snarkypixel on Sunday August 08, 2021 @02:11PM (#28108739)
I think you're being overly pedantic by focusing on the distinction between hybrid and native apps. As far as most users are concerned, if it's installed on their computer, /feels/ like a real app and is solving problems they care about, they couldn't care less whether it's built using web technologies or not.
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Re:Launch HN: HyperLinq (YC S21) – Desktop trading terminal by krageon on Monday August 09, 2021 @03:15AM (#28113522)
> overly pedantic

Categorising what can charitably be called a repackaged website as native or high performance is quite simply lying. It is entirely not the case that it is so and therefore it's neither pedantic nor overly so.

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Re:Launch HN: HyperLinq (YC S21) – Desktop trading terminal by snarkypixel on Monday August 09, 2021 @11:38AM (#28118246)
> Categorising what can charitably be called a repackaged website as native or high performance is quite simply lying

Some hybrid apps are "repackaged website", but others are built to be high performance desktop apps. For instance, I wouldn't call vscode or slack "repackaged websites" even though they're built using Electron & web technologies.

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Re:Launch HN: HyperLinq (YC S21) – Desktop trading terminal by na85 on Sunday August 08, 2021 @03:34PM (#28109415)
Whether users care or not is a straw man.

React running in a headless instance of chrome is a webapp, plain and simple.

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Re:Launch HN: HyperLinq (YC S21) – Desktop trading terminal by amargautam on Sunday August 08, 2021 @02:21PM (#28108829)
Thank you. There you go!!
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