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> I suspect it's simply a matter of the younger crowd having more exposure to native mobile development, and little or no experience with native desktop develop

by s_kilk 10y ago

> I suspect it's simply a matter of the younger crowd having more exposure to native mobile development, and little or no experience with native desktop development... Precisely this. Mobile devs care about their artisanal/bespoke/authentic Objective-C or Swift code, while no-one really cares about Qt, GTK or wxWidgets in quite the same way. There's social cachet to be gained by coming out in favour of native mobile development, while the same is not true for native desktop development.

kitsunesoba 10y ago
They're obviously no majority but it's quite common for Mac dev to exhibit much of the same care seen in the mobile dev crowd. Given that all Objective-C developers were Mac devs before they were iOS devs, I'd bet that's where that bit of mobile dev culture has its roots.