szajbus
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I'd argue that the risk of your own instance being inaccessible for whatever reason is significantly higher than GitHub or GitLab having a full outage.
Clock randomly jumps to zero. I can sometimes make infinite moves. Using laser is a bit unintuitive.
Web devs are in full control of their whole stack (excluding the browser where you occasionally need to account for incompatibilities), have to maintain only one version of the app (no upgrade needed on client-side), are not constrained by the platform owner's policies (app store tax).
Yes, it's more limited than native technologies in other ways, so it's not an answer for every problem.