Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era

Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era by pjmlp on Monday October 14, 2019 @01:19AM (#21245443)

On the contrary, I loved VB and Delphi, and it is the reason why I mostly focused on Java and .NET as my daily tools.

Developers are users as well, and I think too many fail to understand this.

Whatever tooling makes it easier to develop for, means that I can focus on other parts of the problem.

I don't miss working like I did during the late 80, early 90s. Our computers are so much better for them to be reduced to a green phosphor VT-100 terminal.

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Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era by sitkack on Monday October 14, 2019 @11:26AM (#21249296)

You and I agree, but look at the market for end user programming, it is vastly under developed. You are a single data point, not the whole population.

End users are way smarter and more capable than programmers give them credit. Applications should be empowering users not capturing them in a walled garden fed by their masters.

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Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era by Crinus on Monday October 14, 2019 @07:00AM (#21246895)

> Our computers are so much better for them to be reduced to a green phosphor VT-100 terminal.

So much this. Every time someone harps about this or that great terminal application that looks worse than even MS-DOS applications from the late-80s (when most users had moved on from MDA cards) i die a little inside.

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