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1. Admira+K7[view] [source] 2019-03-07 15:07:16
>>iBelie+(OP)
My primary concern with this is that different applications are inherently optimized for the platform on which they were originally designed. There are some applications that have a very dense UI because there's simply alot of functionality that the program handles (think of a video editor, an IDE, etc). Trying to slim down those applications to make them reactive so that they will scale onto a phone or tablet just seems silly, and I fear that in the name of making "everything work everywhere", we're going to compromise a bunch of apps that worked beautifully on one platform in favor of making them work adequately on several platforms.

I mean, if someone said, "I've successfully ported Vim to Android!", my first thought would be, "Why in god's name would I want to run vim on my phone?"*

* Ruling out, of course, someone plugging their phone into external KVM.

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2. fiddle+zc[view] [source] 2019-03-07 15:39:15
>>Admira+K7
I find that modal editing is a really good fit for Mobile keyboards: text manipulation (select, copy, cut, edit) is pretty hard on a touchscreen and being able to hit a couple keys to make the edit instead of fiddling with dragging out a range on screen makes a huge difference.
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