• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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    9 hours ago

    There are trade offs to each approach. However, it’s clear that super app approach has won in China, and the video I linked explains why.

    And more philosophically, I’m surprised that as a functional dev you prefer one big tightly coupled combine to a collection of small but useful on their own utilities lightly coupled to produce more than the sum of their parts.

    Because it’s the opposite of that in practice. This approach decouples the UI functionality from the functionality of each individual app which becomes a plugable service. This way you can trivially build workflows that involve multiple apps and chain their functionality any way you like. Coupling the UI to the business logic of an application is a fundamentally wrong design decision in my opinion.

    Also, this doesn’t have to be done as an app. It can be done at OS level. This way apps can work following Unix philosophy where you can create pipelines involving different apps and do scripting using them the same way you can do with command line utils. I’m surprised that a dev would have trouble understanding the benefits of doing this.