Is the Web Browser the Most Important Platform for App Development?

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  • wasi-libc

    WASI libc implementation for WebAssembly

    Standardization Efforts: Projects like WASI aim to create an ABI standard that facilitates better integration between WebAssembly and the host operating system. However, WASI’s full browser support, especially for web-specific APIs like WebGPU, is still a work in progress.

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  • emscripten

    Emscripten: An LLVM-to-WebAssembly Compiler

    That said, WebAssembly’s ecosystem is still fragmented. Tools like Emscripten (C/C++), wasm-bindgen (Rust), and JSGo (Go) serve different languages, but this complicates the standardization of interactions with web APIs, limiting broader WASM integration with web development.

  • wasm-bindgen

    Facilitating high-level interactions between Wasm modules and JavaScript

    That said, WebAssembly’s ecosystem is still fragmented. Tools like Emscripten (C/C++), wasm-bindgen (Rust), and JSGo (Go) serve different languages, but this complicates the standardization of interactions with web APIs, limiting broader WASM integration with web development.

  • Uno Platform

    Open-source platform for building cross-platform native Mobile, Web, Desktop and Embedded apps quickly. Create rich, C#/XAML, single-codebase apps from any IDE. Hot Reload included! 90m+ NuGet Downloads!!

    Unified Codebases: Frameworks like Uno Platform and .NET MAUI enable developers to write once and deploy across web and native platforms.

  • Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI)

    .NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop.

    Unified Codebases: Frameworks like Uno Platform and .NET MAUI enable developers to write once and deploy across web and native platforms.

  • react-native

    A framework for building native applications using React

    Hybrid development frameworks, like React Native and Uno Platform, address some of the trade-offs between web and native apps by allowing developers to write code that works across platforms:

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