I’ve been having these weird crossover dreams where I’m in this stressful dialogue with myself about some personal problem in my life — but the dream’s visuals are all just code in an IDE window and I’m desperately debugging it to fix the personal problem. It’s pretty crazy.
Many services use an open tcp connection (e.g. websocket) rather than polling. Mobile platforms are doing the same thing, just on a system level. I guess service workers are the closest web analogue.