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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by s73v3r_ on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @07:10PM (#16981952)
But the poster did say this was a full-time project.

And I don't believe that only having experience in web development is a good enough excuse for shoehorning web dev things everywhere else.

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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by RussianCow on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @10:16PM (#16982869)
You're right, I missed the OP saying that. But I still disagree: prior experience with a platform is a great reason for using it. Maybe not for a company with lots of resources, like Slack or Microsoft, but definitely for a small team or individual developer. Any time you would have spent learning a new development platform can instead be spent building new features!
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