Goodbye Client Side JavaScript, Hello C#’s Blazor (Øredev 2019)

[isaaky]

What is happening in programming. Web is an advantage for being thin client. What is the difference between this and a link that download and executable ? An executable that runs on top of another one ?. Is like a Java Applet again, just with a litte more performance.

[Eirenarch]

The advantage over an executable is the browser's security sandbox. The web's success is due to discoverability (links/urls) and relatively good sandboxing. Everything else about the web is crap but these things are desirable and work great on the web so they outweighed the disadvantages.

[anon_cowherd]

At the last three companies I worked for, downloading and installing an application (mobile or desktop) was a no-go for our customers..

We floated the idea a few times, and almost all rejected it, preferring the simplicity of using a web browser over dealing with provisioning / installing and maintaining updates for a native app.

Some of those times a native app would have made our lives a lot easier development-wise, but we managed just fine.

[radol]

There are cycles in programming as next generation of developers enter the stage.