First, and I can't say this often enough, many Fugu capability requests come *directly* from top app developers.
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Pushing past the tactical, developers *frequently* express concern to us that they'll "miss out" on capabilities if they build for the web (vs. native). This is a key driver of short-term decision making in our experience. Folks don't want to be caught flat-footed vs. competition
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Historically, you could trust the web *not* to expand it's capability footprint. In the comparative lens, this means it's a dead language. You'll never expect it to keep up and deliver what you need to enable the new experiences you will want to deliver. FOMO suppresses interest
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How do you work against this? A steady string of safe-but-capable expansions that meet clearly-articulated developer needs. And the "steady" part matters. If we pull up the drawbridge at any point and say "no more!", everyone will understand the web can't support them.
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Now, of course, this is exactly what some vendors have done. Little surprise, then, that tools like Electron have gotten traction in their proverbial backyards.
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Every metaplatfrom naturally expands to provide capabilities developers need and that is available on *most* hardware and *most* OSes -- or that metaplatform dies.
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When in the past ~30 years did the web die?
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If there's reason to hope that offering most users most experiences through storefronts that are facially and strategically opposed to web participation hasn't suppressed web growth and health, that would (happily) surprise me. Maybe you're saying this is the case?
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