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My problem isn't with the bad JS (or, in the past, PHP/JAVA and so on) devs themselves, it's that they insist on building an ecosystem out of a really bad platf
by tomc1985 10y ago
My problem isn't with the bad JS (or, in the past, PHP/JAVA and so on) devs themselves, it's that they insist on building an ecosystem out of a really bad platform. Why? Because JS and this "leverage existing skillsets" bullshit. How about leveraging your brain to learn a more appropriate language?
- oblio 10y agoDo you know of a "more appropriate" language for creating cross platform apps that work on Windows, Linux, MacOS, BSDs, iOS, Android, 4k screens and 480p screens? I don't know any.
- tomc1985 10y agoC? C++? QT? Java? Any language with GTK hooks? Xamarin? Juce framework? Delphi?? You say 4K and 480p screens like that's hard. Design once, scale forever?
- oblio 10y agoC is unsafe and is too low level. C++ is possibly the only language with more bad parts than Javascript :) Java ok, but how would you run it on iOS? The last viable option for that (RoboVM) was taken behind the shed and shot by Xamarin/Microsoft. GTK doesn't run on mobile and it's barely supported on Windows and MacOS. Xamarin is ok, but it used to be closed source and cost $1000 per year for any serious project. I don't know Juce, but from what I can see it's a C++ framework, so see C++ :) Delphi? Zombies don't count ;) The most viable contenders for modern cross platform software were marred by bad corporate ownership: Java, C#. They've kind of gotten back on track recently but I'm not sure they can catch up to the web-train.
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