Yeah, I remember in 2000ish doing our first "real-life software application" in my undergrad. Just a simple desktop UI for Amazon. Everybody else used Java be

Yeah, I remember in 2000ish doing our first "real-life software application" in my undergrad. Just a simple desktop UI for Amazon. Everybody else used Java because that's all they knew, and it killed them. 3 man teams and they couldn't make it work. I used Python with TkInter and it was a breeze. Not quite as easy as VB6 (Microsoft doesn't get enough credit for stealing Delphi's good ideas), but they'd specifically said I couldn't use that. I had only 1 teammate and he spent his whole time working on Amazon interface code - sending/receiving XML and getting them into useful python objects. Later on in my carreer I learned Web stacks and my brain hurt... but that might be because I started with the horrible abomination of ASP.Net webforms. HTML+CSS+Javascript only manages to be a functional application framework thanks to the weight of the entire computing industry. The trillions(?) spent on this bullcrap is just silly. The wrong platform won because it was the lowest common denominator - everybody already had a browser.