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Discussion on: What is better about web development vs native and vice versa?

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Dustin King

This is more about why I like it than what it's like:

Ideally, the web is a platform with universal reach that is not controlled by any one corporation or government, and that anybody can publish/deploy to with almost zero cost. I'm Team Web, 100%.

On the other hand, the web has spent the last couple decades reinventing features that native platforms have had, well, natively. And large organizations are still able to exert considerable influence.

But the web has come so far. I'm looking forward to things like WebAssembly and P2P protocols that may let it go even farther.