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" The number of new developers isn't much higher today than it was already in the 90s" All the data suggests this is wrong by any order of magnitude. The web
by jmfldn 5y ago
" The number of new developers isn't much higher today than it was already in the 90s"
All the data suggests this is wrong by any order of magnitude. The web was an absolute game changer.
- tabtab 5y ago> The web was an absolute game changer. In the fact that it made rank-and-file CRUD harder. The web's state-less-ness and screwy anti-wysiwyg UI "auto-flow" made CRUD into a convoluted whack-a-mole mess even its mother hates. It takes about 3x as long and 3x more code to develop a CRUD app in web now. We have to focus on tech & UI minutia instead of the domain. We de-evolved and nobody seems to care. The Jetsons were shot in head point blank, replaced with the Flinstone DOM. The web may be is a godsend for e-commerce and social networks, but it sucks rotting eggs for office CRUD: the wrong tool for the job.
- jltsiren 5y agoThe web was an absolute game changer in the 90s, and it attracted many new people into the field. A lot of those people left tech due to the poor job market in the 2000s.