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The web (browser) will always trail the desktop, because the web is an inner platform, and no inner platform can develop faster than the platform it runs on. Also, the web has to be compatible across 3 major operating systems, so you need to build wrapper layers.

I've come to the conclusion that the browser shoudl have become a virtual machine host where every tab was its own VM. Then at least we could run normal apps on the web without WASM.

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That is not the web - the web is documents and hyperlinks in addition to URLs. Sounds like you might want Fuchsia?

Browser are the largest individual representative of web technologies (in terms of traffic, users). The three things you listed are all consumed primarily through browsers. And the article we're discussing explicitly is talking about applications- either on the mobile phone, or in the mobile browser.

No, I don't want Fuchsia, that's just another OS on top of the 3 we have, with significant restrictions. It was really just a tool for Google to have more power over Android developers and hardware manufacturers.

To be fair, this would be true if you just emerged from a 20 year coma.

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