Software based on that still exists and it’s a hell to maintain.
To which I can reply 'come back in 20 years and tell me about your experience maintaining something based on npm and friends'. At least those old crufty systems had the good grace of not having a best-before date measured in weeks. They might lack many other graces but for maintainability there is something to be said for a modicum of temporal stability when it comes to development environments.
Re:Flutter desktop shells
by TheOtherDave on Thursday April 25, 2019 @08:58PM
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+1, would agree with again
I think we lost something important with the shift from workgroup to client/server (especially ODBC).
I banged out a lot of dBase II, FoxBASE, MS Access (in-house) apps, back in the day. I've not felt as productive since. I miss it dearly.