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@vertigo The hard part of cross-platform application delivery is creating the GUI, and web technologies are easier and cheaper for that than basically anything else, at the cost of not providing a native UI experience. I'm not aware of WASM doing anything to improve that, but I haven't looked into it much.

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I'm not aware of WASM doing anything to improve that, but I haven't looked into it much

Exactly why I am upset about the situation.

10 Mar 2021 at 19:49 | Open on hackers.town

Adrian Cochrane

@mathew @vertigo Yeah, my understanding is that the choosing a language to build a new platform on would be the easy part. There's lots to choose from!

There's APIs that need adesigning...

10 Mar 2021 at 19:50 | Open on floss.social

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@alcinnz @vertigo
Right, it's easy to deliver native code cross platform nowadays, using (at least) Go, Rust and Zig and possibly other options like Kotlin. Putting a cross-platform native GUI on any of those is painful in the extreme.

10 Mar 2021 at 19:53 | Open on mastodon.social

@mathew @alcinnz @vertigo One of my big gripes is that all this web stuff is happening *at the expense of* comprehensive cross platform GUI libraries. We still have Qt, but C++ sucks. The biggest Rust GUI libraries have around 100 contributors. That's a small fraction of the labor that goes into Qt.

10 Mar 2021 at 21:21 | Open on fosstodon.org

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