D could catch this wave: web assembly

[Kagamin via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 21 June 2015 at 11:56:13 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Sunday, 21 June 2015 at 10:13:22 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
>> Do you think it's wise to ignore 2 billion users? The size of 
>> the mobile market doesn't mean you can target it entirely. The 
>> article suggests currently we have era of services and 
>> services are clustered by culture, which means you can't 
>> target users outside of your cultural cluster, while desktop 
>> applications usually target entire desktop market without 
>> exceptions.
>
> Apparently most new apps nowadays are ignoring that legacy 
> desktop market.

You mean services?

> As for cultural clusters, that's changing as they're now 
> starting to bleed into each other: look at Office on 
> Android/iOS and the multi-window stuff coming to mobile devices.

Huh? Cultural clusters like nation, country clusters. If you make 
US-oriented news service, you can't target even EU users not 
speaking about China.

>> It will be desktop for all practical purposes, just more 
>> constrained in resources. Mobile platform will embrace two 
>> unrelated ecosystems, and you will still have to choose which 
>> ecosystem you target, and since desktop is a minority, why you 
>> would care about mobile desktop? It will be minority for all 
>> the same reasons that make desktop minority.
>
> That's like saying current PCs are "mainframes for all 
> practical purposes, just more constrained in resources," you 
> honestly believe that too? ;)

And how do they differ?

> The former dominant use case for computers, creating content or 
> getting work done, are a small part of what computers are 
> bought and used for nowadays.

Yes, if smartphones do that, they will become desktop.

> So yes, the desktop UI is a niche, but a moderately large niche 
> that is about to move to mobile devices also.

Yes, but your claim is that desktop will die, not move.

> devs are certainly not dealing with that complexity at all.

Yes, that's the problem with web: devs can't get web right for 
decades already, that's also one of the reasons for mobile apps 
to exist.