Ask HN: What are things desktop applications do that web apps can't?
For example: controlling the mouse, which can't be done from a browser for security reasons.
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Well, you can streamline & integrate an entire office's financial, scientific, engineering, marketing, sales, recordkeeping, paperwork, HR, and internal communication and it can be done with the utmost security & reliability when there is no wireless and no connection to the web whatsoever.
Process extremely large amounts of local data quickly.
True, is that why Adobe does things the way it does?
Fully interact with the operating system API/SDK, not just a subset of it.
Heavyweight media creation applications; eg. Blender/ZBrush, Substance Designer/Painter, Avid MC, ProTools, Adobe Premier/AfterEffects, UE4 Editor.
I always get a chuckle out of web programmers who think that because they can do their entire job out of a few web apps, that everyone else can too.
I always get a chuckle out of web programmers who think that because they can do their entire job out of a few web apps, that everyone else can too.