@amxmln things like this drove me to become a native mobile developer and all but give up on web development about 7 years ago. I often wonder if I'd have chosen to do the same had I begun my career today instead of back when I did. I still wish the web were as performant and capable as native mobile code but it seems like the goalposts just keep moving
@billy I can understand the sentiment! I feel like these days we’re 95% there for 80% of use-cases, at least on Android (Safari keeps getting better, but is still a mess).
It can be very frustrating when something like notification scheduling is missing (there even was an origin trial for it in Chrome a while ago, sadly the feature got dropped), but personally, I still think web apps are the future.
For me at least, the benefits still outweigh the issues. 😊
@amxmln yeah, I still do some web dev in my free time to keep an eye on its progress and it's a lot better than it used to be, for sure. It'll be interesting to see where we are in 5-10 years now that smartphones have basically stopped any meaningful innovation and are mostly commodities now. Well, I say that no meaningful innovation has happened but new tooling like Jetpack Compose has made it easier than ever to make native apps. No one has quite cracked the cross platform enigma yet either
@billy yeah cross-platform-ness is a big reason I like the web. I feel like it’s the only true way to offer something on almost any platform from the same code base. Plus, using HTML and CSS for UIs just feels right to me. 😅
That being said, I haven’t done much native development, so I can’t really say how things are going on that front.
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