Francisco TolmaskyI really hate the term “side-loading.” We shouldn’t need a word for the normal way we’ve been installing apps for the past 40 years. If tomorrow Apple decided they were going to start only letting you visit web pages they approved of, we wouldn’t call some sort of alternating system that let you see *the rest of the fucking internet* “side-paging”. We’d instead call the whole thing bullshit.
Jeff Atwood@tolmasky trading binaries makes this a far more dangerous game than the web
@codinghorror We didn’t call it side loading binaries on macOS either. Arguably the AppStore has done nothing for security, that’s all sandboxing. Apple constantly allows scam apps on the store, takes forever to take them down, lets them advertise [1], and often lists them higher in search! To quote Phill Schiller: “Is no one minding the store?!” Arguably it’s worse for security since people are convinced everything there is safe. It’s the TSA of app security.
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@tolmasky yeah, that's all fine, but to say "just like the web" isn't correct when you are dealing with binaries. There is a movement to put binaries on the web (webassembly?) https://webassembly.org/
@codinghorror I see the perception that this is a future technology still persists… https://x.com/tolmasky/status/1575992502234255360
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It’s interesting that Figma didn’t usher in a new age of super cool web apps. They released a super impressive WASM app *6 years ago*. Everyone was blown away & then proceeded to… talk about WASM as a future technology & just went back to arguing about React vs. Vue or whatever.