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Is it a failure when everyone writes javascript/html/css instead of doing native applications for non gaming?

Most of HN seems to think using a web browser as a translation layer is a good idea, yet they complain when games use a translation layer.




Is it a failure when everyone writes javascript/html/css instead of doing native applications for non gaming?

Yes?


Yes, definitely, that is why now we have ChromeOS developers instead of Web developers.


You better have made this comment via a native windows hacker news desktop application.


I would gladly have used one, if it existed without being a web widget wrapper.

I miss the days of native apps with Internet protocols, and USENET discussions.


Hacker news is a web site, not an application.

A web site makes for a crap application and the reverse.




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