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That does not actually contradict the point. We got stuck in a suboptimal local maxima due to the all early design decisions of browsers and JavaScript. The original inventors did not expect anyone wiring web version of Google Drive on the web.

The market surely pushes against the bloated electron apps, yet the convenience of having the same app on web as well as "native" and the amount of man years which went to make HTML+JS the richest multi-platform UI framework on the market is more important.



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