Re:Writing an app is like coding for LaserDisc
by pjmlp on Monday September 05, 2022 @11:35AM
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Blend is your friend.
The only reason I went back to cloud and Web development, is that pre-covid it was the best way to get 100% remote jobs, so I put up with it.
By the way, most of those iOS/Android users are using apps and not Websites.
Re:Writing an app is like coding for LaserDisc
by YesWeWill on Monday September 05, 2022 @11:41AM
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They might be using apps, but my customers don't want to pay for developing for four or more separate platforms (Windows, macOS, Android, iOS - also notice that nobody would develop for Linux), so they solve it by having a single platform - the web. Many of my customers previously had (only) a Windows app but found out that onboarding new customers is much faster (and thus happens more) with web apps.
.NET is dead to me, I simply don't trust the platform/libraries to continue existence and receive updates. Also the JS/NPM ecosystem is much larger and that's truly what's keeping me there.
Re:Writing an app is like coding for LaserDisc
by pjmlp on Monday September 05, 2022 @01:04PM
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Yeah we don't get NuGet packages that only offer a single function...
Also the UI designer experience for WPF is much worse than it used to be with WinForms - so bad I just wrote the code manually, and at that point I can just write HTML/CSS. But perhaps they fixed that - I left .NET in 2015.
It doesn't run in the browser anyways - and the browser is what my customers want, because everyone has a browser, but not everyone has Windows desktop - especially today, when many people don't even own a PC and use something with Android/iOS as their primary computing device.