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> Notice all of these benefits are centered around developer experience. User experience is the biggest gap right now. From all the benefits of web technologie
by hcarvalhoalves 13y ago
> Notice all of these benefits are centered around developer experience. User experience is the biggest gap right now.
From all the benefits of web technologies, "developer experience" is the worst one.
Developing (good) UIs using web technologies is an exercise in masochism. It's forever piling hacks and finding new frameworks to bend a browser to do what you need (a broken model). Then, worry about cross-compatibility.
Someone proficient in XCode is likely ten times more efficient and produces a more polished result with much less pain.
- rimantas 13y agoExactly. Most likely those pushing for "web tech everywhere" did not bother to check out that native platforms offer. On the other hand those doing native apps what do little more than display html in embedded webviews are not helping either.
- pjmlp 13y agoI have been doing mostly web during the early dot com days (1999-2001), returning to it around 2008. With every project the conviction that the web cannot move away from the wild west development style grows on me.