Google's Web App announcement

Totally - PWAs are definitely the way to go, and I'm hoping to tweak the Web IDE such that it can run as one, fully offline. It already works pretty well as-is.

The problem is the IO. There is currently no way for a PWAs to:

• Access your filesystem in any meaningful way (so no projects/modules any more)
  
• Access a USB serial port
  
• Make standard socket connections (so no Telnet connection to ESP8266 any more)
  
  

and probably some other stuff I've forgotten too.

And that's what sucks - Google just removed a load of functionality that actually cannot be replaced with PWAs at the moment, even if I did spend the time rewriting the Web IDE.