Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App
by gkilmain on Friday January 04, 2019 @10:08PM
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There has been a ton of whining over the years about native vs some JS framework and I'm tired of the shit too. Now I can't speak for your QT but I can for IOS. Do you know how much easier it is to learn swift + xcode vs learning html / css / js in a framework that compiles to native code? The answer is very much.
Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App
by mpweiher on Friday January 04, 2019 @03:45PM
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Wunderlist had/has native apps for all clients. One of the main reasons people LOVED the app. It's certainly not a guarantee, but if you want that final level of polish for a consumer app, native is the way to go.
Everyone is writing Electron and PWAs at this point. Nobody wants to train C++ developers for a minor speed boost consumers don't seem to care about. They have a full build pipeline and dozens of trained webdev engineers ready to go, why invest in a whole new product?
A LOT of people have looked at the cost/benefit of electron VS something like QT. Many have decided that the performance hit isn't worth the cost of developing the C++ build pipeline and training developers on how to build QT apps:
- Spotify
- Visual Studio Code
- Atom
- Invision
- Slack
- Mattermost
- etc.
The web tooling is actually pretty nice if you stay in your lanes. CSS / HTML / Javascript can create a really nice experience if you don't do a bunch of dumb stuff and make pragmatic decisions.