Re:Ask HN: Why are there so many more digital experts than a...
by 0x0aff374668 on Thursday December 26, 2019 @04:20PM
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Yeah, I agree with you. I had a sneaking suspicion.
Funny you mention Electron: my company switched from Qt to Electron because it opens up a larger pool of developers with instant cross-platform portability with a fraction of the debug overhead.
Ever wondered why so many people would learn React rather than build GUIs in C for embedded? Because the money is in the web. It's like Electron vs Native UIs. You can rant and rave about Electron's inefficiencies but that still doesn't change the fact a flashy UI like Material Design or yet another Stripe theme can be built faster and easier in web technologies than Gtk.
Look at the 3 editions of Art of Electronics. You can see a clear trend towards digital if you look at the technologies that gets removed and added in later editions.