Re:Show HN: Cross Platform .NET Desktop Application Framework
by arenaninja on Thursday May 25, 2017 @10:43AM
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Yes, web devs do have C++ allergy. More specifically I think the aversion is to doing your own memory allocation.
To me this makes sense. Web developers will typically have a handle on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, PHP, SQL, NodeJS. Some will even be good at most of these. There's design patterns on most of these that are significantly different. The context change from one language to another exacts a toll, which I imagine why Node found a niche in the first place. Electron seems to be finding another.
To me this makes sense. Web developers will typically have a handle on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, PHP, SQL, NodeJS. Some will even be good at most of these. There's design patterns on most of these that are significantly different. The context change from one language to another exacts a toll, which I imagine why Node found a niche in the first place. Electron seems to be finding another.