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Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? by ironmagma on Sunday December 12, 2021 @11:38AM (#29531024)
I don’t disagree with anything you said. If anything, it just supports my point that native development is needlessly hard. Again, none of this has been true of the browser vendors. They have every incentive to get people to use their stack and make it nice.

By the way, a blog post on how to create Nibless apps would be invaluable.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? by PaulDavisThe1st on Sunday December 12, 2021 @12:09PM (#29531325)
Not sure about browser vendors and their stack. I almost never hear of anyone who develops on a browser vendor's stack, they use 3rd party tools in JS and CSS and webasm etc ... After Node wrapped up the DOM and put a bow on it, it seems that people move on (up? down? sideways?) from webdev at that level (except the people developing alternatives to Node).

I'm not sure if this is the source I used, because the date is a little late, but it seems very thorough and excellent:

http://lapcatsoftware.com/blog/2007/05/16/working-without-a-...

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