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This kinda begs the question. Yeah, writing a smartphone app is already painful, and doing it that way on the device would be ridiculously more painful. Is that
by dTal 4y ago
This kinda begs the question. Yeah, writing a smartphone app is already painful, and doing it that way on the device would be ridiculously more painful. Is that an inherent property of the form factor, or the result of systematically orienting the system towards consumption?
I say the latter. I used to program with great facility in BASIC on my calculator in high school. I was not even the only one who could do this. The input methods available were much less rich than what a smartphone can provide, not to mention the display. Now, in 2023, the easiest way to write simple programs on my phone is by emulating that calculator. Come on!
- dehrmann 4y agoI think you beat up your own strawman. True, development on the device is harder because of the form factor, but what truly makes it harder is devices are more complex, so everything else is more complex. It means more complicated API, frameworks, IDEs, etc. To the original question, table stakes are an order of magnitude greater than when 80's computers booted to a Basic prompt.