> is there really a need for a native programs anymore
As long as you don't give a shit about the fact that your baseline memory consumption is now 500MB instead of 25MB, and that 80% of your CPU time is wasted on running javascript through a JIT and rendering HTML instead of doing logic, no.
If you don't give a shit about your users or their time, there's indeed no longer a need to write native programs.
As long as you don't give a shit about the fact that your baseline memory consumption is now 500MB instead of 25MB, and that 80% of your CPU time is wasted on running javascript through a JIT and rendering HTML instead of doing logic, no.
If you don't give a shit about your users or their time, there's indeed no longer a need to write native programs.