Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
A very underrated flippening: It feels like these days when open source software devs make software with UIs *that runs locally*, a lot of the time the UI is built *as a webpage* and you access it by going to localhost:3030
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
As opposed to…? Fat native GUIs? It feels like open source has slowly abandoned app categories that need the latter. Last one I can recall downloading is Inkscape. The localhost webpage model seems mostly for text heavy UIs. I haven’t seen rich graphic UIs in that style.
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Building a UI in the browser at this point is generally easier and in most cases superior to a UI built using a native OS framework. Not to mention, it works on every OS without any platform specific code. There are very few situations where I think using the OS native windowing system for UI is the right choice.
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