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0 pointschadcmulligan10y ago0 comments

Web is where the new stuff was happening. The browser is very constrained - most of the 'new' stuff is to get around the browser shortcomings - e.g. react, angular. These are to solve front end problems that have been long solved on desktop environments (.Net, Delphi, VB maybe even Obj C though I'm not a fan)

Actual new tech is in the mobile sphere now imho, or server side AI, very little of this is web development except for the occasional front end for said apps.

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noir_lord10y ago

As a former desktop developer, current web developer I think WebAssembly has a decent shot at changing that.

The tools I use now are significantly more crude in the business domain/for line of business stuff than I was using in the days of Delph 5.

Personally, give me something that can run Qt (or something like it) and Python in the browser and I'm 95% to been in heaven.

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0 pointschadcmulligan10y ago0 comments

Actual new tech is in the mobile sphere now imho, or server side AI, very little of this is web development except for the occasional front end for said apps.

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noir_lord10y ago

As a former desktop developer, current web developer I think WebAssembly has a decent shot at changing that.

The tools I use now are significantly more crude in the business domain/for line of business stuff than I was using in the days of Delph 5.

Personally, give me something that can run Qt (or something like it) and Python in the browser and I'm 95% to been in heaven.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse