[HN Gopher] I built a PWA and published it in 3 app stores heres...
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       I built a PWA and published it in 3 app stores heres what I learned
        
       Author : oblib
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2022-05-29 19:43 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | oblib wrote:
       | I thought this was an interesting overview of the process.
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       | I was pondering about the current state of this and searching for
       | independent "app stores" and there's no real independent outlet
       | for real "web apps". So I did some searching for domain names for
       | that and most of the obvious ones are taken, but there's no
       | website.
        
       | manuelabeledo wrote:
       | > Final thoughts: The web always wins. It defeated Flash. It
       | killed Silverlight. It destroyed native apps on desktop. The
       | browser is the rich client platform. The OS is merely a browser-
       | launcher and hardware-communicator.
       | 
       | I really hope this is not the case.
       | 
       | The web is fine, but nothing beats native implementations. Web
       | apps are slow and bloated in comparison to a true native app. And
       | I for one cannot believe that we have accepted that simple things
       | like note taking or chat apps need _several_ hundreds of
       | megabytes of RAM to run. Madness.
        
         | aaaaaaaaata wrote:
         | > Web apps are slow and bloated in comparison to a true native
         | app.
         | 
         | The webapps _you have used_ are slow.
         | 
         | This generalization is changing and will continue to change the
         | better Apple/iOS treat PWAs.
        
         | oblib wrote:
         | >>note taking or chat apps need several hundreds of megabytes
         | of RAM to run.
         | 
         | I have a fairly big app and while I'm not sure how to measure
         | that I ran "about:memory" in Firefox and added up everything I
         | saw for the app and it came out to be about 30mb.
         | 
         | My Mac's Finder says the directory with all the code is 9.9 MB.
         | 
         | That app is plenty fast, even on my old late `09 Mac Mini Mac
         | running 10.11.6 with just 4gb ram.
        
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