• Kogasa@programming.dev
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    5 months ago

    Sandboxing is a good thing. It makes it a lot easier and safer for billions of devices to run millions of apps.

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      5 months ago

      Sure except that we already have computers where every app uses the same folder structure, just with some files/folders protected with elevated permissions that aren’t accessible to every app. We already have a solution that works and every desktop OS uses. Why would mobile go for a solution that isn’t actually usable?

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        5 months ago

        The desktop solution isn’t feasible in the mobile context. Even for desktops, you see an increased interest in reproducible/containerized/sandboxed environments with docker, flatpak/snap, immutable operating systems, and so on. It’s all about managing complexity.