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I'm surprised by this sentiment. I thought web apps had 'won' on the desktop? Is the pendulum starting to swing the other way?
by MarkMc 14y ago
I'm surprised by this sentiment. I thought web apps had 'won' on the desktop? Is the pendulum starting to swing the other way?
- Shorel 14y agoI do both. Debugging CSS is much less fun than using a proven multiplatform C++ toolkit. Only when node.js got popular I could write the ever reliable callbacks in my web code, while I use them all the time in C++. But of course there are more people who can write web apps than people who can add this symbol at the end of the line -> ;
- pjmlp 14y agoOnly if you are speaking about database frontends that are nothing more than enhanced versions of "form submit", which used to be done in RPG, COBOL, CLIPPER, VB and now Web. There are many other areas when desktop is still the way to go.