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Imagine if a big OS vendor like Apple decided that people were not "using the platform" correctly by building on top of third-party database libraries instead o
by jhp123 3y ago
Imagine if a big OS vendor like Apple decided that people were not "using the platform" correctly by building on top of third-party database libraries instead of using the filesystem directly.
So they introduced "File System Tables" which was their vendor-blessed replacement for databases, but it did a bunch of things really differently from SQL databases for no clear reason, and forced you to think about things like file locking and write durability that you were actually pretty happy to let a DBMS take care of for you.
- spankalee 3y agoWeb components are just a natural fit for the web platform, which has grown into a general GUI platform and deserves a built-in component model. No other GUI platforms lack a standard way of building components.
- jhp123 3y agoThe "standard" GUI solutions on platforms like Windows, are also being abandoned in favor of React.