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0 pointsFirmwareBurner9mo ago0 comments

When? When the majority of SW dev work became synonymous with web dev.

Why? Because that's what web devs are comfortable with.

How became this a good thing? When web apps became the easiest way to deploy cross platform.

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Also the native UX kits all suck and have done so forever. There i said it.

There’s a reason KDE looks better, has better consistency across apps, does theming at the os level better etc. Html/javascript/css for your native app frontend is actually quite reasonable.

const_cast9mo ago

The native UX toolkits wouldn't be so shit if everyone wasn't so greedy. We don't need to reinvent a better wheel every 5 years (windows) or force some proprietary garbage nobody cares about (mac).

It just needs to be reasonable, easy to adapt to other platforms, and long-lasting. The web isn't even that good, the competition is just self-destructive to a point it can't be justified.

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