The fact that it's a close call is embarrassing to web and something I strongly agree with both of you we should fix, and something Mozilla could be doing more to help with. Sadly, "packaged apps" confused Google and then Mozilla into years of wasted time.
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I'm not claiming I knew how to run the whole project, end-to-end, better. Certainly not. But I do think focusing on emulating native (hosted apps) rather than on how to be a great web operating system (~PWA) was a mistake you could see coming.
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At least in GPU land, neither platform is good, and as client+server GPUs (or even smarter stuff) is where perf increasingly comes from, I see the days still pretty early. Unfortunately, I find web perf initiatives here 5-10years behind.
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Generally speaking, the web is behind native, because the web standardizes a single API that abstracts all of the native APIs. Typically you see the web hang back until things stabilize, then make fast progress in the hands of a good champion.
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