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It's been disheartening to see the degradation of desktop computing because of the shift to "mobile first". That AI UI designer (Aiuzard?) doesn't even know wh

• rayiner 3y ago
  We have gone backward. MacOS X gave us a smooth, tear-free desktop back in 2001. Electron apps and other web technology based apps shit all over that. Even basic apps tear and rubber band when doing something as mundane as resizing the window. They are grotesquely slow and janky while also having a fraction of the features of the apps that we used to use for the same things. And then there’s all the paradigms that make sense on mobile but feel like a straitjacket on the desktop, such as model windows for editing items, or single-window interfaces. Frankly, it’s depressing. It’s like living in Detroit or Baltimore or Pittsburgh after deindustrialization, when you remember what they were like in their heyday.
• bbkane 3y ago
  I agree, but I think this is largely the fault of OS Vendors, who design deskop creation frameworks that are usually some combination of hard to use, not very stable, not powerful enough, ugly, or not cross-platform. I'm sympathetic to the argument that OS Vendors shouldn't be held responsible for their libraries being used outside their OS, but that's clearly what (most) developers want, so (in my opinion) it's a requirement for a popular library.