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Interviews with Leaders in Local-First

by tantaman on 4/2/24, 4:02 PM with 2 comments

  • by keikobadthebad on 4/2/24, 4:36 PM

    From inkandswitch.com on their first podcast episode

    > All in all, we speculate that web apps will never be able to provide all the local-first properties we are looking for, due to the fundamental thin-client nature of the platform. By choosing to build a web app, you are choosing the path of data belonging to you and your company, not to your users.

    This is just wrong, consider cups with a headless backend at 127.0.0.1, but in there doing whatever it needs to do.

    Browsers are too good at being universal frontends to ban them according to shaky dogma.