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Comment by iLoveOncall | Hacker News Reader

Well I'd argue that making GUI applications is not the future, so that doesn't bode well for making GUI applications with Godot.

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I'll bite. Why are graphical user interfaces not the future? They're certainly the past and the present.

The sad future is, the browser is the new desktop gui.

I think that’s the present (electron apps have been all the rage for the last few years), but maybe not the future. There’s much effort being put into native-ish GUI programming in recent years such as Godot and Druid.

Why do you think Chrome OS isn’t more successful then? (Outside of specific markets like education.)

The Walmart near me stopped selling Windows PCs and only sells Chromebooks. ChromeOS is extremely successful.

2% marketshare despite the incredible pricing, but ok.

For an OS most of us would consider useless that's been around for maybe a quarter of the time desktop Linux has been and half the time OSX has 2% is pretty impressive.

As to the pricing, it's not like Desktop Linux doesn't work very well on cheap hardware either. OS popularity comes down to social things like PR (especially with children) and has little to do with merit.

> For an OS most of us would consider useless

It's almost as if readers of HackerNews aren't the target audience of ChromeOS.

> As to the pricing, it's not like Desktop Linux doesn't work very well on cheap hardware either.

It's almost as if potential Linux users aren't the target audience of ChromeOS.

The present? The very vast majority of applications are ran in the browser nowadays.