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I much prefer doing MacOS or iOS layout work rather than working with the absolute clusterfuck that is HTML and CSS.
by hugi 6y ago
I much prefer doing MacOS or iOS layout work rather than working with the absolute clusterfuck that is HTML and CSS.
- hombre_fatal 6y agoI vastly prefer web client development where there are much better abstractions and I have rather arbitrary freedom. I think web GUI tools are simply better and I think my StackOverflow is one example why. The web also has a full spectrum responsive solution. Even Apple is transitioning from 90s KVO tech to SwiftUI, a buggy experiment that looks like any of the reactive/observable weekend frameworks that the web has been experimenting with for 10 years. One thing I notice is how little cross-experience there is. The iOS developers I work with have barely built a web client, and web developers have barely built a mobile client. I bet 95% of our opinions including my own are driven by familiarity, and we just like to roleplay that it's some deeper technical calculation. That said, even if the iOS dev experience was 10x as good as it is today, I still wouldn't pick it for personal projects because polishing an application that only iOS users can use is a nonstarter. That downside got old so fast.
- rimliu 6y agoLet me guess, you did not do any iOS development? To claim that web has better abstractions is insanity. Even before autolayout to say that was a stretch. And I say this because I do have that cross-experience: working with web since 1998 (1996 non-professionally) and with iOS since 2010 (professionally since 2012).