For those of us maintaining any of the billions of lines of legacy code that runs the majority of IT... nope. A lot of use cases can be covered by the web ecosystem, but a lot can't as well.
This seems to be a common fantasy or fallacy of developers under a certain age (I too far from that age to guess). I suspect because of the amount of dedication required to keep up with front-end technologies.
The reason it's so complex is because it's a bad fit. Soon enough everything will be WASM and we'll be right back where we were in the 90's with the "thin client" vs "thick client" debate.
The good part of it is that there ARE some problems being solved. WASM is a good start on trusted computing, and that's not going to go away ever. Unless that other fantasy of my generation (X-Gen) comes true - post-apocalyptic societal collapse. Not sure that could be called a "fantasy", maybe "collective nightmare" is a better term for it.
This seems to be a common fantasy or fallacy of developers under a certain age (I too far from that age to guess). I suspect because of the amount of dedication required to keep up with front-end technologies.
The reason it's so complex is because it's a bad fit. Soon enough everything will be WASM and we'll be right back where we were in the 90's with the "thin client" vs "thick client" debate.
The good part of it is that there ARE some problems being solved. WASM is a good start on trusted computing, and that's not going to go away ever. Unless that other fantasy of my generation (X-Gen) comes true - post-apocalyptic societal collapse. Not sure that could be called a "fantasy", maybe "collective nightmare" is a better term for it.