Installable web applications are an incredible concept that have saved my customers and myself countless hours (and money).
The experiences are fantastic. The applications look native to the platform, with coloured title bars and OS specific window decorations.
The performance is not noticeably different than the equivalent native experience. I am taking advantage of multi-threading through web workers, web push notifications (sorry iOS), and the (single) code base is maintainable and easy to work with.
I don't see how a GUI framework like QT or several native applications would make a more effective alternative either aesthetically or financially.
I'd consider it uncontested once installable web applications have deeper system access (filesystem, etc).
The addition of web assembly bindings for direct DOM manipulation and directly importing wasm binaries via a script tag would complete the browser as the most sensible customer facing front-end environment.
The experiences are fantastic. The applications look native to the platform, with coloured title bars and OS specific window decorations.
The performance is not noticeably different than the equivalent native experience. I am taking advantage of multi-threading through web workers, web push notifications (sorry iOS), and the (single) code base is maintainable and easy to work with.
I don't see how a GUI framework like QT or several native applications would make a more effective alternative either aesthetically or financially.
I'd consider it uncontested once installable web applications have deeper system access (filesystem, etc).
The addition of web assembly bindings for direct DOM manipulation and directly importing wasm binaries via a script tag would complete the browser as the most sensible customer facing front-end environment.
RE performance, look at Figma.