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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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@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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Fidel Ramos
@framos.eth
I actually like it, much lighter than an Electron UI for example, and more portable. The web browser is the ultimate compatibility platform.
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Darryl Yeo 🛠️ (at Devcon)
@darrylyeo
Web standards are awesome. Would love to see more Tauri apps in the wild! https://tauri.app/
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Jason Crawford
@jasoncrawford.eth
Yes but I think this happened years ago
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@m-j-r
the pendulum might swing back the other way once OS internalizes content/software creation. in fact I find it interesting that native apps can get to be 10x the size of the OS they're running on.
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avi
@avichalp
llamafile for example
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Quiark
@quiark
Nobody knows how to build native desktop apps any more. "what? No React?"
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@ellis
Yep, why not just make it be a webpage instead of running it local if you’re not going to take advantage of benefits of a local UI. Building it this way, you still have the constraints of amount of data and need for call backs, just closer, building a real local UI adds so much more power.
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vhawk19.eth
@vhawk19
Trying to understand what flipped
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Zarry HA
@zarryha
Yes sir :3
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@pgpg.eth
If only this didnt totally break all browser sandboxing.
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Tyler Loewen
@tylerether
I love to see it. As a dev, I can use one stack - my favorite stack - for UIs no matter what language my program is written in.
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I still haven't been able to get my local port open https://warpcast.com/fourpoops/0xb0a49a94
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@idesign
Yes, it seems that these days, many open source software developers are focusing on developing software with a user interface that runs locally. Using localhost to access website interfaces is becoming a popular trend in the software development community.
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Winston Laoh
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With Progressive Web Apps being more of a thing, I don't see this changing back.
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