On that note, the recent proliferation of "progressive web apps" has been pretty irritating to me lately.
PWAs give this deceptive illusion that you're installing an actual application, when in reality, it's just a bunch of ephemeral data thrown into the user data folder of the respective browser. Yeah good luck migrating that to another computer particularly if the original website goes down.
There's also a baffling amount of praise around PWAs, but wrap that same damn app in Electron (giving me the ability to run it offline as well as archive the installer in case the website goes down among other benefits) and people lose their collective minds.
It’s almost like what snobby self-important dev communities like vs dislike is as arbitrary as they are in any other group. It’s just that for some reason developers are delusional enough to think that they’re actually smart.
PWAs give this deceptive illusion that you're installing an actual application, when in reality, it's just a bunch of ephemeral data thrown into the user data folder of the respective browser. Yeah good luck migrating that to another computer particularly if the original website goes down.
There's also a baffling amount of praise around PWAs, but wrap that same damn app in Electron (giving me the ability to run it offline as well as archive the installer in case the website goes down among other benefits) and people lose their collective minds.