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[-] kamen@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago

I'd argue that deploying from one codebase to 3+ different platforms is new functionality, although not for the end user per se.

I wish though that more of the web apps would come as no batteries included (by default or at least as a selectable option), i.e. use whatever webview is available on the system instead of shipping another one regardless of if you want it or not.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

That’s how a bunch of apps broke when M$ got rid of explorer

[-] Harlehatschi@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 days ago

But if your tool chain is worth anything the size of each binary shouldn't be bigger. To oversimplify things a bit: it's just #ifdefs and a proper tool chain.

In the web development world on the other hand everything was always awful. Every nodejs package has half the world as dependencies...

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