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I think the way to settle this -- and I'm not taking sides here -- is to look at the original Hacker News reception to this letter: https://news.ycombinator.co
by elicash 6y ago
I think the way to settle this -- and I'm not taking sides here -- is to look at the original Hacker News reception to this letter:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1304310 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1304310
- bdcravens 6y agoGoing back to the original comment, "Everyone already hated and was avoiding flash at that point", I think you have to look at as being a broader concern than HN, a subculture that doesn't reflect "everyone".
- elicash 6y agoI don't think by "everyone" they meant people who weren't aware of what flash was and users. Just the people who could conceivably be trying to avoid it -- creative types and developers.
- Izkata 6y agoEven people who weren't aware. I distinctly remember a general dislike by people who didn't know the name of the technology, because parts of my highschool's homepage were implemented in Flash, and it didn't load right. In 2005-2006. They recognized it primarily because it was slow and messed with the right-click context menu.
- thedonkeycometh 6y agoLOL at the python devs in the thread, such hope.
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoHey, this thread is great, thanks for the link!
- sixstringtheory 6y agoInteresting that we now find ourselves in a battle over Native vs Electron/ReactNative, when that was essentially SJ's answer to Flash: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1304329 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1304329 The problem is that both web applications and native applications are "applications." The rest are either implementation details or politics of the platform owners (Apple) and 3rd party app developers. I say this as someone who enjoys writing Swift.