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Howard Chu @ Symas
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It's strange how we've gone from a world of native apps for a select few platforms, excluding all others, to a world of web apps that supposedly run on everything (as long as they have a supported browser). Going from the choice of native performance or not available, to sluggish performance everywhere - except oh yes, there's only a select few platforms supported by the necessary browser.

I don't think it was a good trade.
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Howard Chu @ Symas · 3w
Back in college with my Atari ST, I sometimes envied the PC world with its plethora of apps. Delving deeper into Free Software ameliorated some of that; it's why I became a gcc & binutils maintainer, so I could build other people's code and run it on my ST. For proprietary stuff I wrote my own 8086 ...