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Good. Javascript needs to die. It was far simpler to build performant multi-device UIs 15 years ago than it is today. Building UIs natively on iOS and Android is so much simpler than building for the web.

Technical question: 1.) What is the speed of WebAssembly on iOS WebKit and Android WebView? 2.) Is it feasible to write an entire app UI in something like Qt and target WebAssembly? 3.) Android, iOS, Windows versions of the app are Qt apps natively or possibly through the device's WebKit.

Is this possible today? Is there a better UI library than Qt for this?



> Building UIs natively on iOS and Android is so much simpler than building for the web.

I can get lit-element with no build process going to prototype something in a single .html file in probably 30 seconds. I don't think XCode/iOS developers can compete with the simplicity. Define initial state, alter it through events, pull data through fetch(), write HTML. I know for a fact iOS development isn't that simple.


Swift Playgrounds, when they work, can compete with that somewhat.




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