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Not all web apps are overengineered crap

I didn’t say that. There are always well engineered apps and things. But few. Compared to that, a lot of mainstream desktop apps are now web apps for no good reason. The actual reason is webdevs not challenging themselves to become something else or at least better.

If I read your case correctly, it’s basically “customers use crappy laptops -> we decided to make them use web browsers” which sounds insane to me because web content IS the reason why tons of otherwise unnecessary upgrades are done in recent 10 years or so. Office guys can’t use Chrome with just 8 GB of RAM because it will affect their business performance.

Not that I don’t believe your case doesn’t contain other specifics that make web a right choice. And I don’t need to know more of that. It’s just how it sounded to me.

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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
it’s basically “customers use crappy laptops -> we decided to make them use web browsers” which sounds insane to me because web content IS the reason why tons of otherwise unnecessary upgrades are done in recent 10 years or so

We do processing on the cloud because our customers use crappy laptops. We use a web browser because:

convincing customers to get approval for our app is hard (corporate IT), whereas they already have a recent browser

it’s faster to get the result we want

our dev env (macOS) is different from our target platform (Windows); this is because it’s easier to work around our IT Dept than with them (and nobody on the team likes Windows), and our servers are Linux, and macOS is close enough for BE dev

audits are easier - just need to test the API, not the whole desktop app platform since auditors trust the browser

The same is true for my the other project I mentioned. If your business is largely B2B, then browser apps are a much easier sell than a desktop app. We’re getting a little pushback as we’re breaking into a new market, so we’re turning to Tauri to provide a desktop-app experience, a different keep the web app for the rest of our customers.
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