I'm interested in the advent of web tech as new x-platform env for desktop apps.
But: Atom can't keep up with my typing. B/c of web tech?
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I’m pretty concerned about the accessibility, perf, UI design direction, and cross-app interaction issues this implies :(
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Yeah, ditto on all counts. I'm willing to make some tradeoffs if it means more "native" apps, but more work to do.
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Web browsers are great at accessibility and perf, and it is far easier to design custom UIs in HTML than Cocoa
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@paulcbetts I… haven't seen much evidence that web browsers are great at either accessibility or perf, relative to e.g. Cocoa.
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@paulcbetts …and Cocoa is pretty terrible at perf relative to common sense. So that SHOULD’VE been an easy comparison to win
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@paulcbetts I think it's more that it makes complex solutions to common perf problems easy (c.f. NSTextLayout, UITableView).
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Don't fight the Web - if you don't like things about the web as a platform, fix those things
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@paulcbetts awaiting proposals for how to do a dyld shared cache equivalent in a JIT language with interest
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@paulcbetts Doesn't have to be JITted if we compile to asm.js.
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@paulcbetts fair. Currently every meaningful asm.js impl I’m aware is JIT, but it could be done AOT.
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@paulcbetts Don't really care about "currently" :/
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@paulcbetts that still leaves open problems before you can do sharing, but they feel vaguely tractable