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It kills me that fucking everything is a fucking website these days, even "desktop" applications.
Though not having to download and install a random program from the Internet, with full access to your hard disk, is often nice. When running in the browser, it is automatically sandboxed hard.
And it kills all the performance... And the security, and the privacy, as everything needs to fucking call home to be able to work.
And, why the fuck would you build over Electron or Tauri? That's just being retarded, desktop apps should be done with actual native graphic toolkits, not that fucking performance, resources, space, security and privacity that "hybrid frameworks" are.
Which is true and all. For many things.
But if I just want to decode some JSON for a computer game, it is nice to just be able to do it on a website, with no need to install anything.