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How is this getting uovoted ? Is nobody reading the article ? A few paragraphs in and I can see the author has terrible writing skills and doesn't know what he'

How is this getting uovoted ? Is nobody reading the article ? A few paragraphs in and I can see the author has terrible writing skills and doesn't know what he's talking about >In fact, writing software with C/C++ was hard because developers had to work with different operating system API(Application Programming Interface). Seriously ? Writing C++ apps is hard because you had to use different APIs ? That's the least problematic part about C++ app development, behind say the fact that your app can segfault when dealing with strings... (and especially pre C++11) or that you could take lunch breaks during builds which kills GUI iteration. I feel like this doesn't belong on front page and people upvoting this are doing the site a disservice by upvoting based on title alone.

bluedino 6y ago
It is a shit article.
sudobash1 6y ago
I agree the article in of itself doesn't deserve front page placement, but the discussion that it is generating does. Sometimes I upvote or favorite mainly because I found the comments engaging and informative.
- reader_mode 6y ago
  I mean this is a dead horse beaten over and over weekly, but even if it wasn't I don't expect to read blog spam when I click on front page stuff on HN - if this becomes the norm the site will lose value for me.
baxtr 6y ago
"Goodbye, Medium articles". That's the article I want to see trending...
- gabereiser 6y ago
  I’ll upvote that
- thaumasiotes 6y ago
  Hey, Jeff Bezos' article was pretty good.
Entalpi 6y ago
It was a bit hard to read honestly. A bit of rehash but that is most of the content on the internet anyways. Felt like someone writing for a school assignment.
axegon_ 6y ago
My thoughts exactly. The one problem with native apps is the resources and time you need to develop the same app for several platforms. That's all.
- Thorrez 6y ago
  That seems to me to be what the Medium author was saying.
- reader_mode 6y ago
  That's really a modern problem that happened after mobile became mainstream - but by the time that happened nobody was pushing C++ for app development anymore - Android was Java only for frontend and iOS was objc. If you did apps in days where C# and Java took over for C++ mobile still wasn't a thing and macos was super niche (especially in enterprise) - few people really cared about cross platform - demonstrated by C# being windows only and growing in popularity during the time. Visual Studio dev experience was just better than anything comparable at the time (Borland stuff was dead by C# era) and C++ was just an inferior language for app development (especially pre modern C++ where you couldn't even rely on stl being implemented correctly across platforms and people regularly rolling their own containers)
darthrupert 6y ago
This should tell you something about the quality of patrons on this site.
perryizgr8 6y ago
It reads like something generated by GPT3.

bluedino 6y ago

It is a shit article.

sudobash1 6y ago

I agree the article in of itself doesn't deserve front page placement, but the discussion that it is generating does. Sometimes I upvote or favorite mainly because I found the comments engaging and informative.

reader_mode 6y ago
I mean this is a dead horse beaten over and over weekly, but even if it wasn't I don't expect to read blog spam when I click on front page stuff on HN - if this becomes the norm the site will lose value for me.

baxtr 6y ago

"Goodbye, Medium articles". That's the article I want to see trending...

gabereiser 6y ago
I’ll upvote that
thaumasiotes 6y ago
Hey, Jeff Bezos' article was pretty good.

Entalpi 6y ago

It was a bit hard to read honestly. A bit of rehash but that is most of the content on the internet anyways. Felt like someone writing for a school assignment.

axegon_ 6y ago

My thoughts exactly. The one problem with native apps is the resources and time you need to develop the same app for several platforms. That's all.

Thorrez 6y ago
That seems to me to be what the Medium author was saying.
reader_mode 6y ago
That's really a modern problem that happened after mobile became mainstream - but by the time that happened nobody was pushing C++ for app development anymore - Android was Java only for frontend and iOS was objc. If you did apps in days where C# and Java took over for C++ mobile still wasn't a thing and macos was super niche (especially in enterprise) - few people really cared about cross platform - demonstrated by C# being windows only and growing in popularity during the time. Visual Studio dev experience was just better than anything comparable at the time (Borland stuff was dead by C# era) and C++ was just an inferior language for app development (especially pre modern C++ where you couldn't even rely on stl being implemented correctly across platforms and people regularly rolling their own containers)

darthrupert 6y ago

This should tell you something about the quality of patrons on this site.

perryizgr8 6y ago

It reads like something generated by GPT3.