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Re:The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects by com2kid on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @07:44PM (#16488721)
> Try telling 3D modellers/sculptors, games programmers, audio engineers that 90% of their computer use has moved into a browser. They will look at you with a blank face since they all require traditional "fat" desktop apps to get their work done at professional level.

I'm talking about overall computer use. For certain professional fields, yes, apps still matter. But I'd take a guess that the majority of screen time with computers now days involves a web browser.

Heck as a programmer (not web), I am probably 50% in browser looking things up.

At most offices, computers are used for web browsing, and Microsoft Office.

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Re:The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects by nineteen999 on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @10:40PM (#16489495)
> Heck as a programmer (not web), I am probably 50% in browser looking things up.

I should have put web in square brackets eg. [web] to indicate "optional". You seem to fall into the category I was describing.

Use an IDE (other than Atom), eg. Visual Studio, Eclipse, IntelliJ? All fat apps.

Use VMware workstation or Virtualbox? Fat apps.

> At most offices, computers are used for web browsing, and Microsoft Office.

So is that 90% web browsing and 10% MS Office? BTW, Office365 is still fat application (or suite of them) last time I looked.

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