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Devs don’t design user interfaces anymore. There are separate disciplines for user experience, graphic design, front-end development, API development, and data

• serf 3y ago
  not everything is a team effort, and the desire espoused all over this thread for an equivalency clearly demonstrates that there is a 'market' there. when some small developer is making a silly one-off app for a mom&pop local store to facilitate a one-off kind of task they aren't interested in handing off work and splitting meager profits. not every company has the whole "front-end/back-end/devops/ux/design/management" paradigm going on. the reality is that microsoft , a fairly litigious group of people, abandoned a concept for their own reasons; and the rest of the market doesn't exactly know where they can step in that minefield of offering equivalent features to a piece of software that is still on life support by a very very large/valuable/litigious company.
  • ChicagoDave 3y ago
    There was a time when shareware ruled the world before the World Wide Web. VB was king. Even corporate America was all in on VB, Powerbuilder, and Delphi. But once the Internet truly arrived and building complex, distributed, highly interconnected systems became normal, the tools were only going to get more sophisticated.
• lotsoweiners 3y ago
  You should tell my employer, state Government, this.
  • ChicagoDave 3y ago
    I’ve seen an upswing in state government software engineering sophistication. Mayhaps it hasn’t reached you yet.