Stefan Mileschin

Server-side web navigation, with client-side rendering

Suhail Doshi has come up with something he thinks will be computing’s future which they thinks could be a default browser-based computer infrastructure.

Basically, it is server-side web navigation, with client-side rendering and Doshi calls it “Mighty”.

“When we first started Mighty, our plan was to stream Microsoft Windows. But after talking to users we learned that they were using their browser most of the time and what they really needed was a faster browser”

The OS is becoming increasingly irrelevant as we near the end of a multi-decade shift from desktop to web apps. Now even applications you install (Slack, Notion, Figma, etc.) are often made with Electron, which is running the engine of a browser.

“From the user's point of view, the browser is the operating system. That's where they spend their time and where apps run. Obviously, operating systems will continue to exist, but they will shift into more of a background role”, he said.

Writing in his bog Doshi said that after two years of hard work, "we've created something that's indistinguishable from a Google Chrome that runs at 4K, 60 frames a second, takes no more than 500 MB of RAM, and often less than 30 percent CPU with 50+ tabs open".

https://fudzilla.com/news/52777-new-future-for-pc