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  • Exec@pawb.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    2 months ago

    Web engine development is more costly than even OS development

    Unfortunately, many applications that used to be desktop applications in the past are now programs that run in the web browser. It doesn’t matter anymore if they are a lot less effective than being native.

    we’re talking costs that often run into the hundreds of millions per year – it’s virtually impossible to fund unless you’re a giant

    That is the problem - the web needs to be a lot simpler, browser development should cost fractions of that. It got unnecessarily, absurdly complex.


  • WoW was just such a massive phenomenon (and still is, tbh), basically everyone at least knew about it, and for so many people it basically became more of a second life than second life (old people joke), massively changing the life of these people (me being a part of it). It was basically the place where social outcasts could be social, which was huge. For me, and many others, it was all the friends they had.

    Its legacy now lives on in FFXIV.