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It is amazing to see how large, fat, over-engineered frameworks are taking over the internet. Not only it is easy to backdoor but usually they consume an enormo
by StreamBright 7y ago
It is amazing to see how large, fat, over-engineered frameworks are taking over the internet. Not only it is easy to backdoor but usually they consume an enormous amount of memory and CPU. Not sure how we ended up here.
- t-writescode 7y agoCross-platform guis are hard or ugly and html+css came to save the day
- Kelteseth 7y agoNot Qt/QML
- metalliqaz 7y agoAnd javascript[1], don't forget that lovely language. [1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
- peteradio 7y agoBloat and corruption is the only conceivable way to keep X billion people employed?
- weego 7y agoBecause app development insited on a high barrier to entry approach to paradigms and tooling that put it out of reach of most developers, enough of whom valued a pragmatic approach to getting their ideas out into the world. The fact that billion dollar companies insist on continuing to take the shortcut approach when they have the resources available to "be better" is not the fault of framework developers who originally innovated to fill the demand
- pferde 7y agoCost saving, plus the "suck it up, it runs so it's good enough" user peer pressure to accept the lowest common denominator.
- sixothree 7y ago> Not sure how we ended up here. Then you don't understand why people use them.