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"Front-end development is important today and it will be important in twenty years’ time, it’s not going away anytime soon." That I don't think will be true un
by redleggedfrog 8y ago
"Front-end development is important today and it will be important in twenty years’ time, it’s not going away anytime soon."
That I don't think will be true unless it's pertaining the eventual abandonment of the web browser as the run-time.
The awful tangled spaghetti that is the current code for a web site UI is not tractable going forward. It takes way too much effort to make a usable interface for the value in return. It's also too limiting. And too difficult to maintain. These are all problems caused by using a run-time originally developed for document browsing that has been pressed into service as an application platform.
As a full-stack developer, the front end is the most annoying to work on because it's the most deficient and under-powered. Consequently, we don't put as much effort into it.
Eventually it has to come to something more sane. Maybe web assembly running in a virtual machine - in don't know. What I do know is the advancement of computing is being hindered by the lack of a competent UI system.
- ricardobeat 8y agoWhat UI system is better than web right now? How will web assembly help?
- etaioinshrdlu 8y agoHaha. No. The tangled spaghetti mess will only get worse. We are only going to add more layers. People are not going to be sane :)
- idontpost 8y ago> What I do know is the advancement of computing is being hindered by the lack of a competent UI system. Hasn't that always been the case? UI has always been a mess, at least as far back as I can remember.