WebGPU sucks compared to the desktop APIs. JavaScript and wasm suck compared to native code. Not being able to have threads for loading things like assets in the background sucks.

Yeah there's a ton of llm slop web games out there but anything serious is going to be a desktop application

Literally every app I use professionally is a web app, except the terminal emulator.

The only personal app I use that is native is a game.

So my experience is that web is serious and native is frivolous.

You can send handles to workers that can do threaded background loading, I believe.

It's sad we got such intensification of react as a jQuery++, such massive focus on munging html. But we really have made few gains building actual full stack front end architectures, about understanding deeply how to get work off the main thread, how to run js well. And there so much platform there we could be using!

Hurts a lot that workers have had absolutely pitiful ESM support. Still no import maps, and I'd place very high odds this baked nonsense stays just as shitfest when 2030 rolls around. That massively inhibits doing the right thing, makes it massively shittier to use the platform, alas. But it's doable. Bundle bundle bundle. Blah.