• azalty@jlai.lu
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      A bit of both I guess

      Web apps have the advantage of not requiring admin permission and being accessible from pretty much everywhere, and they are often less intensive I believe

      And I guess cloud storage of documents makes it even better

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        I guess I don’t mind if I can self host the server. If I can’t I have no interest in touching it.

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      11 hours ago

      It’s definitely been the direction of travel for the last several years. Not because the products are better, but because it’s easier to develop for just the browser than for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

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        it’s easier to develop for just the browser than for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

        They also work on android and IOS. You are also not dependent on the different toolkits. Also it is so much more performant.

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          They also work on android and IOS.

          I can imagine it’ll be a 160 MB app that loads the website in a webview, like it usually is

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      10 hours ago

      A good web app is awesome!

      But the big ones usually wants to have a native app so that they can scan your whole computer and so on. This is good news.

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        which is fine if you deny network connections for it with a per-process firewall. but with a webapp you can never be sure that they won’t snatch your documents.