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People that aren't afraid of the hard stuff, and don't need software to wipe their ass? Exactly the sort of shitty attitude that will get us nowhere. I have s

People that aren't afraid of the hard stuff, and don't need software to wipe their ass? Exactly the sort of shitty attitude that will get us nowhere. I have seen a plethora of QT, GTK and other cross-platform applications that weren't only laggy as shit, but riddled with UI bugs. I fucking hate that Electron is now an accepted way to build applications, believe me – but the reason we ended up in this situation is because "real programmers" failed to develop a framework that effectively dealt with developer and user needs.

tomc1985 9y ago
Well its the only attitude that is left after one's opinions and practices are continuously railroaded by excess industry profiteering and need for "change". Sure, nobody stands up to defend the bad attitude but how can one have anything else when all you see are perfectly good things thrown away because they're not shiny enough? I'm sick of watching this field serve shit for dinner and I have no problem with making people feel bad for their bad decisions. Don't want to get made fun of? Don't do things worthy of being made fun of. (The peanut gallery is always watching.) Anyways, it shouldn't be the job of the toolset to prevent bad users from shooting themselves, therefore you are always going to have bad, laggy programs in any UI paradigm. It is the job of the toolset, and those that built it, to not take any one piece of tech too far (in this case, HTML rendering engines) when there are so many acceptable and superior substitutes.