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Unfortunately from a non-professional perspective, writing for the web is just soul crushingly boring and honestly depressing. I'd rather not be reminded that t
by bowsamic 3y ago
Unfortunately from a non-professional perspective, writing for the web is just soul crushingly boring and honestly depressing. I'd rather not be reminded that this is where the cross-platform development takes place. It genuinely makes me hate programming and I find negative joy in it
- mnvrth 3y agoI feel sad that you feel like that, because it really isn't! Of course, different things work for different people, and you and I just might have different ideas of fun, but for me it's the opposite. I find great joy in writing web code. I will give it to you though - the ecosystem is complex. It takes a while to figure out what works for oneself and what is just chaff. And there is a lot of needless complexity. Anyways, my point here is - do try to give the web another try. Maybe it'll click, and you'll start having fun writing code knowing that you can send a link to anyone and they'll be able to enjoy what you've created irrespective of what device they're on, and instantly.
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- wackget 3y agoWhat parts of it do you find boring, specifically?
- bowsamic 3y agoI find working with abstraction boring generally. I want to program a machine to do things, not feel like I'm working in some kind of abstract virtual space. Further, I could maybe tolerate that if it were a nice abstraction, perhaps like smalltalk or something, but the web is a terrible abstraction, being made to do nothing like it was designed to do. It's extremely unpleasant.