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>The web won because it has the least barriers to entry for a new developer and solves a lot of difficult problems that the old-school application stack had. I
by nawitus 12y ago
>The web won because it has the least barriers to entry for a new developer and solves a lot of difficult problems that the old-school application stack had.
I think the web won because the users prefer it over downloading applications. That's not surprising, as 90%+ of users don't even use an operating system with a package manager.
- rjbwork 12y agoNuGet/Chocolatey. Just sayin. Though, I guess technically, they are more of a .NET package manager than Windows.
- prostoalex 12y agoThat theory does not scale well to mobile.
- bnjms 12y agoDoesn't it? App stores share much of the virtues of package managers. And with the 90% comment being what it is it's fairly clear mobile is not the subject of the grandparents comment. Also the discussion is rather pre-mobile. Mobile actually has nearly all of the positives, except os fragmentation, that were referred to in the root comment.