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A dev missed some feature of their usual OS and so wrote a cross platform version open source in their spare time. Who cares that they used the “wrong” languag
by misnome 8y ago
A dev missed some feature of their usual OS and so wrote a cross platform version open source in their spare time.
Who cares that they used the “wrong” language or framework, or could have solved it another way or “who need this functionality anyway”.
Isn’t this supposed to be what the dev spirit is about?
- number6 8y agoThis
- theNextEpisode 8y ago100%. HN comments can be so perfectionist which is ironic given the name. Someone spent their free time to give the world something free, shame on them it's not perfect.
- ekianjo 8y ago> A dev missed some feature of their usual OS and so wrote a cross platform version open source in their spare time. So what matters is the "why" and the "what", and we can just forget about the "how"? Engineering is all about the how we do things, and HN tends to have more engineers than your typical online community. What's wrong with that?
- krapp 8y agoThat isn't the problem. The problem is the community, and the effect Electron is having on it. Cross platform application development is considered a "solved problem" with Electron, and it's developed a cult that leads people to disparage native applications and native development as inferior in all cases, as if Electron were already the best possible solution rather than a hack around webdev that blew up because of the SV hype machine. Because of this commoditization around a single language and a single framework (mostly by corporate interests, mind you,) curiosity and innovation are halted in favor of developer time efficiency and resume visibility. No one is even going to bother trying to create the next cross-platform application solution after Electron, because they would only be able to do so in Electron. It's getting kind of ridiculous.