• naught101@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Does anyone else think that browsers implementing every single feature of an operating system is a dumb idea?

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      8 hours ago

      Desktop OSes are not suited to running untrusted code, unfortunately, so you want to run as much as possible of your closed source megaco software in the browser

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      9 hours ago

      Well, not. Browsers are slowly becoming the cross platform for your apps and it makes a ton of sense from resources (create a single app vs an app per platform) perspective.