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God forbid someone spend thousands of hours building a free app in the tech stack they are familiar/productive with...how inconsiderate!

by mful 8y ago

saagarjha 8y ago
If their tech stack isn't appropriate for the job, then they shouldn't be using it for. We don't have people writing software for space probes in Python.
- sciurus 8y ago
  But we do have people writing some of the most used email clients in the world using HTML and Javascript, so that's hardly a valid criticism in this case. https://emailclientmarketshare.com/ https://emailclientmarketshare.com/
  - saagarjha 8y ago
    Apple iPhone, Apple iPad, Outlook, Samsung Mail, and Google Android, together making up well over 70% of that list, are all native clients. Plus, the clients that aren't native are all web-browser based.
    - sciurus 8y ago
      So 30% of marketshare belongs to clients built on the browser technologies of HTML and Javascript, the same technologies you claim are "inappropriate" for the new client that we're discussing.
- haylem 8y ago
  Yes, but: - we're not talking about space probes, - this is just one dev who thought "I want to write an email client" and make a tech choice based on his/her own proficiency with that stack and his/her project constraints (time, cost, quality, scope). It seems unfair to rant so much about it. If it's feature full and good and perf becomes an issue, consider it an MVP and a stack change is doable. If the thing blows, trash the MVP. Personally I'm far more worried about the first noted limitation about email forwarding with attachments not being available. I'd have wanted that before most of the showcased features, none of which I find particularly interesting. But I applaud the effort and the Polish, and the approach to build the tool that you want/need when. You can't find one. (Second worry would be: if it's not open source, please make so.)
  - saagarjha 8y ago
    > if it's not open source, please make so +1
- tomc1985 8y ago
  But if NASA let startup hackers write their code, we would be!
tomc1985 8y ago
As if all work, and all effort, performed anywhere, is inherently noble and good? Do you praise the builder of that Brazilian skyscraper that caught fire and collapse for the thousands of hours that went into its construction?

God forbid someone spend thousands of hours building a free app in the tech stack they are familiar/productive with...how inconsiderate!

by mful 8y ago

God forbid someone spend thousands of hours building a free app in the tech stack they are familiar/productive with...how inconsiderate!

saagarjha 8y ago

If their tech stack isn't appropriate for the job, then they shouldn't be using it for. We don't have people writing software for space probes in Python.

sciurus 8y ago
But we do have people writing some of the most used email clients in the world using HTML and Javascript, so that's hardly a valid criticism in this case. https://emailclientmarketshare.com/ https://emailclientmarketshare.com/
- saagarjha 8y ago
  Apple iPhone, Apple iPad, Outlook, Samsung Mail, and Google Android, together making up well over 70% of that list, are all native clients. Plus, the clients that aren't native are all web-browser based.
  - sciurus 8y ago
    So 30% of marketshare belongs to clients built on the browser technologies of HTML and Javascript, the same technologies you claim are "inappropriate" for the new client that we're discussing.
haylem 8y ago
Yes, but: - we're not talking about space probes, - this is just one dev who thought "I want to write an email client" and make a tech choice based on his/her own proficiency with that stack and his/her project constraints (time, cost, quality, scope). It seems unfair to rant so much about it. If it's feature full and good and perf becomes an issue, consider it an MVP and a stack change is doable. If the thing blows, trash the MVP. Personally I'm far more worried about the first noted limitation about email forwarding with attachments not being available. I'd have wanted that before most of the showcased features, none of which I find particularly interesting. But I applaud the effort and the Polish, and the approach to build the tool that you want/need when. You can't find one. (Second worry would be: if it's not open source, please make so.)
- saagarjha 8y ago
  > if it's not open source, please make so +1
tomc1985 8y ago
But if NASA let startup hackers write their code, we would be!

tomc1985 8y ago

As if all work, and all effort, performed anywhere, is inherently noble and good? Do you praise the builder of that Brazilian skyscraper that caught fire and collapse for the thousands of hours that went into its construction?