The author seems to predicate his arguments on the assumption that "the web needs to be the development platform of choice" or something like that? I feel like I kept asking "why does the web need to do all these things" while reading the article; it feels like the author just assumes that a maximalist web platform is desirable? That having everything authored on/for the web is a forgone conclusion?
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The author just push LLM nonsense. PWA's are great for field app where internet is scarce and without the need to rely on google to keep side loading possible. Not to mention the nightmare if you even want to deploy the side loaded app to a fleet of phone without needing to use google play store to publish it as an internal app.
I've noticed a lot of consumer embedded products have been using PWAs for flashing and configuring devices (Meshtastic, Meshcore, Betaflight, am32 configurator, etc). I have to open Chromium to use them because they don't work with my normal browser (and I probably don't want my normal browser being able to access arbitrary USB devices).
and I probably don’t want my normal browser being able to access arbitrary USB devices
It has a permission check, just like location access, microphone access, webcam access, etc.
Do you prefer to have everything as a native application then?
I guess there's a blurry line between an "application" and a web site. But, generally, for open source applications, I'd rather them be native. Preferably, the applications would actually be native (e.g. Qt, GTK, Jetpack Compose, etc).