What if, hear me out
What
If
Web application front end
But on unity webgl
And we kill JavaScript

You would kill html and css and stengthen JavaScript.

NOT MUCH BETTER

How this is different than adobe flash? Do you wanna create another abomination?

Worst devs I found were unity devs.
Worst pay I found was unity.

I say nay.

Wouldn't that just be even more bloated

Why yes, I do want to download a huge blob of WASM that includes an inferior clone of the browser's layout engine just to read your shitty cooking blog or buy your cheap plastic crap.

A well-written JS-based website can be tiny and efficient through wise use of standard features, spartan cherry picking of dependencies and code splitting. WebGL could only approximate that efficiency if a similar amount of expertise went into the GUI library as did into the browser. Also, pretty much none of the traditional high level languages are fit for the role because in a high level language executable size isn't a design concern.

I like the native apps idea :P

Native apps aren't a substitute for websites and webapps. You may use a couple websites so often that you would prefer to have a native apps, but you probably also use tens if not hundreds more very rarely. In fact, most of your average website's traffic are temporary visitors who are there for a specific fragment of information. Not only can you not make these people download a desktop app, even just an excessively large bundle size can put them off.

@lbfalvy well maybe we remove the bullshit from the js/http/html/css combo :P

@dontbeevil Messaging services and music streaming services should really have feature complete native clients because they're expected to run in the background as one of an unknown number of programs. Postman though, you can just close when you aren't using it.

@dontbeevil ironically I think two of those are written in electron lol

@AvatarOfKaine All four are, that's his point.

No. That's cancer.

@dontbeevil fuck native apps

@lbfalvy and yet the bundle sizes are growing