I have to say, I miss the age of native apps. I understand that it's awesome cakes for Spotify, GitHub, etc. engineers to share JavaScript bits between devices. But it sucks for me as the user! The Spotify app (on my Mac) has become a resource hog over the years.
Same with Slack's Mac app. As beautiful as it is, there's just something that doesn't feel 100% responsive/right with a web-based app.
"With separate code bases for OS X & Windows
converging on a single design, we knew that
sharing code would be essential going forward.
Sophisticated as the graph is, implementing
it twice would have been a significant burden."
How is it ever reasonable to prioritize coding convenience over the end users' experience? This team set out to solve a cool engineering problem (code reuse) and forgot altogether that people are actually going to be using this stuff.
Same with Slack's Mac app. As beautiful as it is, there's just something that doesn't feel 100% responsive/right with a web-based app.
How is it ever reasonable to prioritize coding convenience over the end users' experience? This team set out to solve a cool engineering problem (code reuse) and forgot altogether that people are actually going to be using this stuff.