Excuse me but web office apps are 95% on par with their desktop counterparts now. There are still a few power features missing but that gap is slowly closing constantly.
So I am not being willfully ignorant. I work with both daily.
On the west coast, it can take 8 (EDITED) hours to drive from the capital of oregon to the capital of california. Likewise, it takes about 14 to 16 to get from oregon to montana. It can take 4 to 6 hours to get from the southern oregon border to the northern.
Where I live, i can walk to a little convenience store in about 10 minutes, but the nearest supermarket would be an hour walk away (10-15 minutes by car). If i were to move 10 miles in any direction, i may not have a convenience store around.
Thats not necessarily dead, some FOSS projects move very slow as these are not the dev's day job. And slow development doesnt equal non-functional. Especially for something as simple as an alarm clock.
What makes them not real? They're shaped like a truck and they operare purely on batteries, what more could there be? I get the feeling that this is truck-snobbery like the ford vs chevy guys from 20-30 years ago
It sounds like at least some of the features released in 4.0 were needed to make that work. Glide typing got disabled as a result of the new framework, so it's definitely on its way (more now than before)
It even has water markers for longer trails where youd be hiking for weeks or months at a time. Sometimes those spots are dry, but you can clearly see water channels in the ground where it would be flowing.
If you download the client, it's just an electron app, so all of the bits written in js/css/etc are sitting right there in the client itself. People have used this to repackage it with customizations, such as webcord (nicer user experience on Linux) and others.
As for the compiled bits... well, every binary executable is open source if you're brave enough
The code is very auditable. I have not audited it myself though so I have no idea if it's actually good, but you can absolutely audit it.
EDIT: Just read through the Javascript portion, which seems incredibly anemic. Each file is like 20 to 40 lines of code max. I did notice there is a C++ folder though, I'm guessing that's where the meat and potatoes are.
Excuse me but web office apps are 95% on par with their desktop counterparts now. There are still a few power features missing but that gap is slowly closing constantly.
So I am not being willfully ignorant. I work with both daily.