Google's Web App announcement

Google just announced that towards the end of 2017 they'll be phasing out Web Apps (of which the Web IDE is one):

http://blog.chromium.org/2016/08/from-chrome-apps-to-web.html

I've been contacted a bit about this already, and there is an issue open in the Espruino repositories here: https://github.com/espruino/EspruinoWebIDE/issues/144

But basically:

• There's no panic, nothing is going to change for at least a year
  
• I have a plan B, in that there is a native version of Espruino already available in the form of an 'Electron' app - I'll just have to start producing platform-specific installers for it, and might have to tweak a few things to keep the 'projects' plugin working.
  
• This may end up being good(ish) - it might mean Google open up Web USB and allow you to use the Web IDE without having to install anything at all, which may mean Android support too.
  
  

But yeah, either way it's more work for me, reimplementing stuff that previously worked fine, and less time I get to work on making Espruino better - so it's not great.

Also pretty shitty of Google to just announce it without having given any warning to owners of apps on their platforms. If you're as fed up as I am, feel free to let them know on their blog post