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> Desktop or even native mobile development seems to be like going back to the last century. The funny thing is that looking from the opposite perspective I fe
by mbel 10y ago
> Desktop or even native mobile development seems to be like going back to the last century.
The funny thing is that looking from the opposite perspective I feel the same. The web development looks like going back to beginnings of programming and reinventing everything again in the browser. You know, like when you read about 'tree shaking' being cutting edge technology in JavaScript land, then look at definition to realize that it's just dead code elimination that has been done by linkers & compilers for ages.
- k__ 10y agoYou're right, these optimisations are missing and all the fancy autocomplete of the IDEs for typed languages that are used on the desktop are missing, too. I don't know, maybe it just seems better to me, because I'm doing Web for so long now. When I see desktop/mobile with Qt, Java or C#, I see huge IDEs, runtime environments and SDKs and with iOS even vendor lock-in, simulators and whatnot. When I see Web with JavaScript, I see tiny editors, browsers that are already installed on every machine and bring all the SDKs and runtime environments, fast iterations, a good package system and general simplicity.