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That could happen. The API is already there, in JSON over HTTP. One could gut all the UI logic and run it in a node program, or rewrite the client.

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That's not a bad idea. Take the browser engine and embed it in your app...then never load code that isn't your own. That's not a web app...thats a native client.

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