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Chrome Project 🐡 & Web Standards TL; Blink API OWNER Named PWAs w/ @phae; probably making her ☕ DMs open. Tweets my own; press@google.com for official comms.

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    1. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate Apr 24
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      Alex Russell Retweeted Šime Vidas

      Hilarious. Fun fact: everyone assumes that PWA memory use will be worse than the same apps built natively, but when we've measured, PWAs have been competitive -- or better. On ~many devices, this is a *massive* win, and improves everything else.https://twitter.com/simevidas/status/1253692364373331972 …

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      Šime Vidas @simevidas
      I got -4 for stating that PWAs perform better than native apps. 😁 pic.twitter.com/AMvJMVavgY
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    2. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate Apr 24
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      Why? How could it possibly be better for memory to rely on a browser runtime in addition to your app's code? Sharing. Single browser process amortizes costs aggressively. Same thing has played out w/ Chrome Custom Tabs: apps that move away from webview win memory back.

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    3. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate Apr 24
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      Also, web apps are *structurally* designed to be sipped through a straw. It's a crisis if there's 500K of JS, but 500K of native code is just a tuesday because a-priori distro. The expectations of developers are cultural, and cultures creates tools that match their shared priors

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    4. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate Apr 24
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      Native developers share the prior that distribution isn't (usually) a runtime concern. If something is slow about code loading, go look for VM or disk latency effects. Web developers are distribution gated, and their runtime is 100% geared to shrinking resources.

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    5. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate Apr 24
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      Web developers *fail* to do a good job a lot of the time because they don't share the native camp's focus on on-device development. But for the subset that do build within those constraints, the platform is surprisingly able.

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    6. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate Apr 24
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      I should also say that because of a lack of on-device culture, webdevs also don't tend to know about (or spend much time on) memory, so it can be a considerable problem to remediate if an app, e.g., has a huge JS heap or allocates too many layers via CSS.

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      Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 24h24 hours ago
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      But given this set of tools and priors, I'd rather be trying to serve *all* users with one codebase & learning where hard limits are than try to optimise multiple native apps.

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        1. Madhur Chadha‏ @madhurchadha 23h23 hours ago
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          Oh the productivity wasted trying to support all the older version of apps. The number of deprecated APIs that are still alive to support that one platform. Eg: Till last year uber was still supporting windows phone native app , until it was finally replaced by the pwa

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