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oh interesting didn't know about hnarcade. thank you :)

I remember building fluid views with rounded corners before border-radius.

Dunno. React has been around for 12 years, Angular’s current incarnation for 8 (older than React if you count <1.5), and Vue for 10.

> The react's algorithm of detecting changes is based on rebuilding a Virtual DOM tree

Not exactly. This is the "mental model" but not how the algorithm works internally. There are a lot of optimizations to do as little work as possible while "appearing" to rerender everything.

This is not to say one is better than the other - each has its own benefits. But that's not a reason to choose Vue over React.

The article says "use React (or Vue, or Svelte, or Angular if you're a masochist - the point is a modern framework"

Yep, that's what we're saying in the article.

> But I don't want it. I want my software to work for me, not against me.

How is said software working "against" you by collecint non-personal telemetry while purpose of that telemetry usually is making the software better for most users?

It's lore. Superman is also cool-looking and the whole story around it just adds depth; no one thinks it's real.

They can hear it from a TV/radio ad, they can see it on a billboard, they can hear it from a friend. Exploring that an app exists doesn't happen only on the product website.

I've always been an Apple ecosystem user. Both main devices and accesories. Apart from my first one, all my smartphones had been Apple. I've only used Apple computers since 15 years.

But that's it. Once my current iPhone breaks (and I took my protector off), I'm not buying another one. This is malicious compliance at the expense of user.

these are not inherent problems to PWAs tho. The data loss situation is pretty much the same for any native app. They can choose to be local only or sync to a server. Apple can also support iCloud for PWAs in theory.

Also there is nothing stopping extensions to work for PWAs. They do on Chrome desktop and you can disable/enable extensions per app. Not an Android user (yet) so I don't know how is it on mobile.

I'd say hacking the platform in a way that's elegant like this would require a certain level of understanding of it,

This. I wish I was either at the start or end of my life. In the middle is the worst imho. We've gained knowledge for years and built lifes around it and the value of that knowledge is now being threatened. It's depressing.

It feels like it's too late to switch plans and careers (and even if I do, what would that be?). At the same time I have another 30-40 years to live, a family, 20 more years of mortgage etc. so the technology has real consequences for a long time of my life, I can't get excited about it.