90% of developers like js

Because fuck app stores

mobile dev is harder than it should be

Because I've spent the last 2.5 months arguing with Apple to even get a developer account set up for White Noise, AND I STILL DON'T HAVE ONE. The rest of my time over the last month has been debugging arcane strangeness in Android. For the most part, building on mobile sucks. And most people don'...

Web apps are easier and more funny to develop, you can mix different frameworks and skills, starting from really basic and growing up. They are quicker to test and share too, and this also highly improve the development speed. HTML and CSS allow to have really nice designs and UIs, even if often bad...

Incumbency bias. 💁‍♂️

Point of entry for a lot of users on social media are links in bio and the majority of users (at least in the US) spend most of their time on social media. Competing with scroll is pretty challenging for most

I use my phone a lot, but I prefer to still do plenty on my desktop, like nostr. It's much easier to type and I like the bigger screen, so I still see a market in the web app world.

because according to #Pareto, is the 10% that moves everything. simple as that

because web apps can be used on any phone, while phone apps can only be used o nthe phones they where made for.

good point there's not a single good mobile nostr client. it either performs terribly or looks terrible. Just make something *pretty* and in dart/flutter so it works everywhere... it's really not hard, I'd do it if I had time to do it

You probably know that in Brazil it's likely even higher.

Irony !!

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do people download app? I go straight to the browser.

A better question is why are 90% of users using something compromised from the beginning...

I think developers have an unconscious bias, thinking that normal people use laptops/desktops a lot, because they do. This isn't real for most people. Plenty of people just use mobile devices exclusively, or near enough.

I doubt 90% of developers are making web apps, but are 9x more making web apps than mobile apps? Conceivably https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/developer-profile/#4-developer-type though that might hinge on whether "full stack" is understood to be _web_ front+back end (full stack: 30.7%, mobile: 3...

You can use one development environment¹ to offer an app to iOS, Android, desktop users and even to alternative mobile OSs like #SailfishOS.