• calcopiritus@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I feel like browser support is such a niche. I don’t understand why many IDEs dedicate so many resources to make it work on the browser. There are already many options to code on the web if you need it.

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      4 months ago

      Pretty sure it’s to enable extensions written in JS. These apps build their success on a rich ecosystem of plugins. And, like it or not, JS plays a big part in that.

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      4 months ago

      Chromebooks maybe?

      I always figured the browser part mostly falls out of doing the Electron-for-cross-platform thing.

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      4 months ago

      I know when I was reaserching this as an option for secure development there was a pretty much just this group and jupyter notebooks.

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      4 months ago

      It’s a lot easier to run web apps on the desktop than the opposite and there are a lot more people with experience developing with HTML/CSS/JS.