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I've often thought the same bit re: history repeating itself - we've seen tech slosh back and forth, wave-like, as you describe - I wonder if perhaps the end ga

• SigmundA 12y ago
  Not sure if we will ever hit end game, there definitely seems to be some more sloshes left, just look at mobile apps, in many way closer to the old heavy client PC days than web apps. Why? Offline is not there on the web, everyone likes to think there is a great network connection everywhere, mobile networks have obviously brought that closer to reality, but nowhere near complete. Taking advantage of the client hardware completely as well for better user experience. Deployment has been pretty much solved by app stores, but still involves a big initial code download before the user can see your app vs a web site yet here we are complaining a javascript heavy site takes a little longer to initially load. I think it will tend toward a homogenous compute environment, you can almost get a feel for it with javascript, node and say postgresql with plv8. Now your code runs anywhere in the stack you please, it's nice even if js ins't the best, but what is?