Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Others Team Up to Launch WebAssembly

Re:Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Others Team Up to Launch W... by threeseed on Thursday June 18, 2015 @07:47AM (#9737952)

How does this mean the end of native apps ?

You still have network issues such as latency, download limits, black spots etc to deal with.

And personally I don't like the idea of sending my contacts, photos, mail, calendar etc to every third party under the sun just to do anything.

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Re:Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Others Team Up to Launch W... by Touche on Thursday June 18, 2015 @09:03AM (#9738237)

The web has had offline capabilities for years, now with ServiceWorkers it's even better. This argument no longer holds water.

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Re:Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Others Team Up to Launch W... by rimantas on Thursday June 18, 2015 @09:09AM (#9738263)

Event better is "might work, sometimes"?

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Re:Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Others Team Up to Launch W... by Touche on Thursday June 18, 2015 @09:18AM (#9738306)

Huh? What do you mean exactly by this?

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Re:Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Others Team Up to Launch W... by qooleot on Thursday June 18, 2015 @08:02AM (#9738013)

I think the author is referring to using Swift instead of phonegap/cordova/transpilers, since performance will be improved and you're not limited to just javascript as the originating language.

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Re:Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Others Team Up to Launch W... by wordbank on Thursday June 18, 2015 @02:43PM (#9740743)

Native apps give you many complex native libraries including UIs.

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