[–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

Then why can't QT provide the same benefit of delivering cross platform developing experience? See, that is the core issue. You write FOR the platform not for yourself. In the web space, the platform writes FOR you lest they want to break compliance with the rest of the web standard. When you are writing web application, you are writing program in a standard that the platform WILL follow instead of you following whatever the platform dictates at the time of their convenience

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    Developing cross platform native apps sucks a lot no matter the tech stack. Compared to web technologies where the burden to follow the spec is the platform if they wanted to have interop with the web, the dev doesn't have to fight the platform.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Correct. The degree that a native app could invade your privacy on the desktop is insane. For mobile, thanks to sandboxing it has a much smaller surface but still annoying nonetheless when an app could just be a web. Especially if all they do is just a glorified form filing app.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    Linus called that a good sign, while asserting that he is "much less interested in AI for writing code" and more interested in AI as a tool for maintenance, patch checking, and code review.

    Linus knows where the actual problem is in the software development cycle. Not that human code slower but the approval of the code itself is slow.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    Now this puts a question for native platform. If web technology managed to get more and more approval to get native access like Web Bluetooth, should we move apps to the web instead? We have web authn as secure hardware backed secret storage. Personally, I like it if everything is not a native app.

    The other extreme is if the native platform provides the same interoperability and standard as web. Would you prefer every complex web to be a sandboxed native app instead? Say a youtube streaming desktop app.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago*

    It depends on what you want to do. I myself use hostinger to host my NodeJS app. The downside is nodejs are only supported on their business tier web host. To be fair, it is more appealing than VPS with the same price for the infinite bandwidth alone

    Whoops, my bad. I didn't see the need for it to be free

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