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> Web still has by far the best developer experience + cross platform stability, not to mention the lowest barrier to entry. I would be really interested to see
by kongin 5y ago
> Web still has by far the best developer experience + cross platform stability, not to mention the lowest barrier to entry. I would be really interested to see what happens with Tauri[1] as that looks like a more promising alternative to Electron.
Compared to what?
C code I wrote in the 90s in middle school still compiles. JS code I wrote two weeks ago probably doesn't because the mountain of dependencies has shifted somewhere.
- galaxyLogic 5y agoCommand-line C-application is "simple". But if you want to give access to your centrally managed (and updated) app to anybody in the world who has browser and internet, it gets more complicated. It gets complicated because you have to program both the client and the server and make sure it works on multiple browsers including cell-phones. So even though basic command-line C-apps are great in terms of maintainability they also typically do less than modern web-apps.
- galaxyLogic 5y agoJavaScript is the lingua franca of the web. Therefore Node.js is a great platform for web-apps. There is also DENO which allows you to compile your JavaScript. For Node.js there is something similar in terms of Vercel/Pkg. There are benefits to using the same language for both the front-end and back-end.