Likely an unpopular opinion. But anyway. I think the presented thingy is fundamentally wrong.
It's just another attempt to put the square peg in a round hole.
The point is: "The web" is not, and never was, a framework for application development! It's the wrong tool. No matter how hard you try.
You want to build applications? Use tools that where build from the ground up to support application development.
On mobile people realized mostly by now that "native" is the way to go. Because native apps are superior along any dimension compared to "web-apps". The same is of course true on the desktop.
Mature and full featured technology to build "native" cross desktop applications exists since forever. Just have a look at great tools like IntelliJ IDEA or Bitwig Studio for example.
Hotwire on the other hand is just another try to misuse "the web" as an application development platform. It's closer to what the web actually is (namely HTML pages) but it's still wrong on the fundamental level (as it tries to build an app framework on top of something that was meant to be only a hyper-text system).
Let's see how long it'll take until people realize this truth - and we're really full circle.
It's just another attempt to put the square peg in a round hole.
The point is: "The web" is not, and never was, a framework for application development! It's the wrong tool. No matter how hard you try.
You want to build applications? Use tools that where build from the ground up to support application development.
On mobile people realized mostly by now that "native" is the way to go. Because native apps are superior along any dimension compared to "web-apps". The same is of course true on the desktop.
Mature and full featured technology to build "native" cross desktop applications exists since forever. Just have a look at great tools like IntelliJ IDEA or Bitwig Studio for example.
Hotwire on the other hand is just another try to misuse "the web" as an application development platform. It's closer to what the web actually is (namely HTML pages) but it's still wrong on the fundamental level (as it tries to build an app framework on top of something that was meant to be only a hyper-text system).
Let's see how long it'll take until people realize this truth - and we're really full circle.