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Re:Ask HN: Will front end development ever move away from Ja... by jMyles on Monday March 13, 2017 @01:52PM (#13860397)
Really? It seems to me that the touchscreen has already supplanted the screen-and-keyboard for most people for most of their day.
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Re:Ask HN: Will front end development ever move away from Ja... by marssaxman on Monday March 13, 2017 @01:57PM (#13860466)
If that's really true, I feel sorry for them! My experience with touchscreens has been that they are mostly sort of okay in small doses, if that's all you've got - but if I need to write anything longer than a sentence or two, or read anything that takes longer than a minute or two, I'll wait til I can use a computer instead.
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Re:Ask HN: Will front end development ever move away from Ja... by sdegutis on Monday March 13, 2017 @04:18PM (#13861941)
Yep. 99% of programmers use an actual computer to type their code into, rather than typing on an iPad or other touch screen. And 95% of programming still requires manipulating text.
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Re:Ask HN: Will front end development ever move away from Ja... by JeffreyKaine on Monday March 13, 2017 @04:38PM (#13862112)
And 99.9% of humans are not programmers.
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