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I cover this in my blog post. Web application are run-anywhere, but lack the performance and low-level integration of native applications.


Which raises the question: how much of that better-than-web performance of native applications is due to not having to deal with networking which, by the nature of this 'advance', they will now have to deal with?


When performance is needed, you can use asm.js, webGL, HTML5 video/audio APIs, and in the future other APIs. It's very hard for me to imagine consumer applications, which can't be implemented as web.




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