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This is completely spot-on (well, disagree some about the coding standards and best practices part) and just calling it an old fart rant is way underselling you
by granshaw 7y ago
This is completely spot-on (well, disagree some about the coding standards and best practices part) and just calling it an old fart rant is way underselling yourself :)
The irony is that the current/next generations who have never seen/used/built a non-stock desktop app will not know of this big-step-back that happened, and will think that this is how things always were.
With so much moving to mobile, this comparison is becoming more irrelevant though. And on mobile native apps are very much still alive, due to many of the reasons you brought up.
- edejong 7y agoYou're right: coding standards have improved. Still, I wonder if we might be biased. From my perspective I see a lot of well engineered code (Scala, Rust), but the majority of the code produced is probably not that clean. The move to mobile has really opened up new opportunities and it seems this discussion is less relevant. Then again, loads of apps are web-apps underneath.