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Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? by dundarious on Sunday December 12, 2021 @11:26AM (#29530918)
Getting started in the web ecosystem involves a lot of similarly impenetrable "magic". There just isn't a community built around creating project templates and creation scripts and such for lower-level programming.

I'd say you're right about the GUI shitshow, and the web ecosystem is just a slightly different kind of shitshow.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? by urthor on Sunday December 12, 2021 @04:41PM (#29533936)
Absolutely.

There's a huge amount of tiny chores with web development, that if you hadn't learnt how to do them in 1.5 seconds 5 years ago, would take you 2-3 days to figure out.

There are a hundred small chores that must be done to build and launch software on the web that you have to learn before you get it going.

I strongly doubt desktop doesn't have the exact same volume of inane things as webdev.

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