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Enter WebAssembly. It offers a path to compiling native apps, written in languages like Rust or C++, into binaries that can run either natively or on the web. Being able to take the same app to any platform commoditizes app store silos, making them into compile targets.Metaplatforms like React Native, and Flutter are harbingers, and I suspect we’ll... See more

1. Innovation tokens: Companies have limited capacity for innovation. These should be spent on core business problems, not on adopting cutting-edge tech stacks.


2. Known vs. unknown unknowns: Established technologies have more known issues, while new technologies often have many unknown problems.


3. Operational costs: Adding new technologies increases operati

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"The issue is not are there use cases in general. The issue is are there enough use cases that are superior to the regular web in such a way that consumers adopt at scale."

You've probably heard the advice that software as a field is changing all the time , and that you shouldn't get swept up in the framework treadmill, just focus on learning fundamental skills. This is a true, but doesn't explain the "why". For structural reasons, information in software propagates really quickly. This is due to a lot of factors (int

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Hopefully, at this point, you see where I’m going with this. What I’ve concluded, based on experience, is that positioning your project as an alternative implementation of something is a losing proposition. It doesn’t matter how smart you are. It doesn’t matter how hard you work. The problem is, when you build an alternative implementation, you’ve ... See more

Today, it’s not as easy to build the “tool” part when so much of that landscape has already been mined and when scaled networks have learned to copy any tool achieving any level of traction.

Coupled with this stemming of developer space for innovation, the place for startups to “ship” things and users to find new things — the app store — has atrophied. Maybe we have reached a natural apex for innovation on the UX of this device, or maybe discovery was badly implemented. Regardless, as the chart below illustrates, getting

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