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I'm sorry but I find this argument utterly tedious.

A Swift file is no less a "text document" than a JavaScript file is. There are APIs available in the browser to store data offline, so I have no idea what "in ways they were never intended to be stored" means here.

A webapp is "an actual damn application". Can we just dispense with the repetitive arguments about this every time anyone so much as mentions adding interactivity to a web page?



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