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0xbadcafebee on July 31, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Bullshit Web

Yeah, because cross-platform is a PITA. The reason web apps are popular is they're thin-terminals. You write your business logic on your mainframe/terminal server (linux vps) and the web app just handles the user interface. You maintain less portable code, deployment and upgrade is easier, and it simplifies the user experience a bit. The downside being network issues and supporting the server.

TeMPOraL on July 31, 2018 [–]

I wish that was the case. Web developers nowadays try to push as much code as they can out into the browser, to be run client-side.

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