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Really thoughtful post. I've never seen the debate framed quite this way and I'd imagine a lot of developers will be influenced by it.
by _pius 17y ago
Really thoughtful post. I've never seen the debate framed quite this way and I'd imagine a lot of developers will be influenced by it.
- patio11 17y agoThanks. I didn't see much value in retreading the well-worn "With desktop apps you can use native APIs, but with web apps you can store data in the cloud" technical flamewar again. What really interests me is how the decision affects the 90% of the business that is not source code, so I wrote about that.
- itistoday 17y agoI think there should be a disclaimer somewhere in there... Some problems can't be solved by a web app, or the web app solution will be far worse than the desktop app. There are many such problems, ergo this post applies to a subset of programming problems for which the web is a better model. Thus, while I enjoyed reading this post, I don't think it says much that we don't already know.