Announcing Capacitor 1.0.0 Alpha

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I'm hoping this doesn't turn out like Appcelerator and Titanium/hyperloop. There was a lot of buildup, and, from my perspective, it sort of went nowhere, and it seemed Appcelerator just focused on enterprise-only vs what seemed like a more indie dev community to start with. I may have been catching the tail end of things around 2014/2015. I went to a Titanium conference, expected a bit more, but was impressed with the hyperloop demos, then... everything seemed to just... fizzle out?

I've liked ionic for a while now, and used it for a few projects. I've seen reference to a desktop version of 'creator', which... doesn't seem in focus now compared to the capacitor announcement (which I'd heard about a bit before). Not sure where the earlier Stencil announcements fit in with Capacitor either. :/

I haven't used Ionic so far, but for what I am seeing they are doing a great work with these new projects and with their vision.

With Stencil they are moving away from Angular and towards web standards, giving the freedom to use other frameworks to develop apps and avoiding a framework lock-in. Stencil is also a standalone library that can be used to build web components everywhere.

With Capacitor they are providing a way to build a real universal app, that can be run on mobile, web, and desktop, using the same codebase

This may be more of a "9 months from now things will be great", but for day to day stuff, this is probably too bleeding edge for much of my work.

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