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I wish browsers had better support for local web apps. If local files can access persistent storage easily, this can open it up a lot of opportunities for quick and easy GUI apps. Basically the opposite of electron.

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How file can access anything? It is just data. It can not do anything.

Executables are files too.

Then it is really a runtime that have an access. I.e. it depends if process have an access to a file from which user is executing a bash script.

Runtimes and operating systems consist of files, too.

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