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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 16/04/2022 21:37, Jay Vaughan wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Have you tried writing a Progressive Web App? It doesn't cover everything, but you can write remarkably powerful apps in React, Angular or Vue, that run and feel like a native app.
Of course, you'll also need to write code in JavaScript or TypeScript. There is that.
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Sure, its ‘easy’ to write these apps. If you’re lucky they’ll still run for a year or so. Its not fun maintaining them and stopping them from falling over when some script kiddy decides he doesn’t like your politics, though. "Packages are literally remote code exec vulns in the hands of package authors."</pre>
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<p>Here's a fantastic example. I just bought Star Citizen ...</p>
<p>Start installing it ... it crashes early in the process, so I
start it again and it crashes again. So I start poking around.</p>
<p>It's a feckin Electron app, node etc.</p>
<p>I had to restart the installer about 15 times to get it to
actually complete. The issues have been in existence FOR YEARS
according to the community. So what to make of that? The users
seem to just make excuses that it's "not their priority".<br>
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<p>Are we to assume that they don't have a dedicated deployment
team? Deployment in a $450,000,000 software project that's both
broken and not a priority? What?<br>
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<p>I dread to think of the crap that's been installed for this
launcher. If its not a priority for them, picking this tech stack
and it's associated issues is a nightmare if you aren't all over
it constantly maintaining it.</p>
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<b>Jammer<b><br>
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