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Ah, but you don't waste time, that's the whole point of the idea. You just repackage your existing web app and distribute it as a "native" app, no effort required. You also have a cross-platform application with no extra work (the auld "Write once, run anywhere" slogan), and can use web developers instead of people who know QT/Java/what have you.

Then the user can run your chat/music/text editor in the background, have it appear in the taskbar, and start boot, at the cost of requiring a few gigabytes of RAM and 25% CPU utilization while idling.

Personally I'd rather have Progressive Web Apps but for some reason, those are still in an awkward stage.



> and can use web developers instead of people who know QT/Java/what have you.

Is that supposed to be an advantage? ;)


But packaging and distributing take a non-zero amount of time.

And none of those "benefits" have any advantage over running the web app in its own window.

It's a hack to use cheap web developers to check off the "standalone app" checkbox.




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