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Re:Deno Desktop by lmm on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @02:36AM (#48641177)
The OS-component-oriented approach was defensible in the days of desktop only (though personally I think it was a mistake even then), but it's not sustainable now. People want your app on their PC to look and behave like your app on their phone (whichever combination of PC and phone they happen to have), and that's a lot more important to them than having it look and behave like other apps on their PC.
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Re:Deno Desktop by wolvesechoes on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @03:35AM (#48641591)
> People want your app on their PC to look and behave like your app on their phone (whichever combination of PC and phone they happen to have), and that's a lot more important to them than having it look and behave like other apps on their PC.

They don't. No one generates GBs of simulation data and create plots on their phones, and this is what "app" I am working on is doing.

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Re:Deno Desktop by lmm on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @04:16AM (#48656767)
Many times I've thought "what kind of idiot would try to use our app on a phone?" only to find one of our execs was doing exactly that, but YMMV I guess.
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