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Thanks for the interview, Patrick. I am also curious about what led you to switch from the Java Swing app to the web app. If you could do it over again would yo

Thanks for the interview, Patrick. I am also curious about what led you to switch from the Java Swing app to the web app. If you could do it over again would you start with the desktop app and move to the web or start with the web?

patio11 17y ago
I have a blog post titled "Why I Am Done Making Desktop Apps" and it answers this at length: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/09/05/desktop-aps-versus-web-apps/ http://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/09/05/desktop-aps-versus-web-a... Short version: web kicks desktop's booty from perspective of developer in conversion rates, support burden, maintainability, and ability to extract data. My next app will be a web app, no question. (If it were a do-over, would I be knocked back to my programming competences as of mid-2006? Because that was Java desktop apps, only -- I couldn't write Ruby and couldn't even spell SQL at that point.)