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Steve Yegge was a true visionary. In 2004 he predicted the massive popularity of (future) Electron: > web application programming is gradually going to become
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Steve Yegge was a true visionary. In 2004 he predicted the massive popularity of (future) Electron:
> web application programming is gradually going to become the most important client-side programming out there. I think it will mostly obsolete all other client-side toolkits: GTK, Java Swing/SWT, Qt, and of course all the platform-specific ones like Cocoa and Win32/MFC
https://danluu.com/yegge-predictions/ https://danluu.com/yegge-predictions/
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- toyg 8y agoI raise you a Joel Spolski, 5 months earlier: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost-the-api-war/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost... “The new API is HTML, and the new winners in the application development marketplace will be the people who can make HTML sing.”