> "can it run on an iPhone" (which kills most new app platforms immediately).
That nails it.
Going off tangent here:
On a macro scale, the devices in our hands are executing output from another machine. This output is usually processed by a browser or a native app.
To make our lives easier, browsers need to be more like OSes, otherwise, we have to write code for each platform for executing the same thing - like the present native app scenario. (aware that we can use hybrid dev, but they aren't entirely satisfactory). WebAssembly holds some promise it seems. Or does it?
Browsers will become more powerful and perhaps would become the most important part of an OS. Maybe eventually, the borders between the browser and the OS will merge and the huge collection of devices and servers would look like a distributed OS of sort.
Another thing is the tooling for present web dev scene which needs to lighten. Setting up tooling takes more work than actual dev at times ;)
That nails it.
Going off tangent here:
On a macro scale, the devices in our hands are executing output from another machine. This output is usually processed by a browser or a native app.
To make our lives easier, browsers need to be more like OSes, otherwise, we have to write code for each platform for executing the same thing - like the present native app scenario. (aware that we can use hybrid dev, but they aren't entirely satisfactory). WebAssembly holds some promise it seems. Or does it?
Browsers will become more powerful and perhaps would become the most important part of an OS. Maybe eventually, the borders between the browser and the OS will merge and the huge collection of devices and servers would look like a distributed OS of sort.
Another thing is the tooling for present web dev scene which needs to lighten. Setting up tooling takes more work than actual dev at times ;)