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Re:Software will eat software in a remote-first world by barrkel on Monday May 25, 2020 @08:55AM (#23300468)
I think that's mostly it. Design has a much larger role, and form-oriented development with common controls doesn't cut it. You couldn't imagine an app like Facebook in a forms-style UI, it's almost ludicrous to imagine.

Looked at retrospectively, forms were just one step above green screen applications on a terminal, transplanting one set of structural idioms to another, like for like.

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Re:Software will eat software in a remote-first world by nogabebop23 on Monday May 25, 2020 @09:20AM (#23300729)
If forms are essentially terminal apps, is FB much different from a teletype news service, with hyper-filtered content and an infinite set of data sources?

I see massive sea change in connectivity and immersiveness of today, but not really in what we're trying to achieve.

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