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Re:Stop building databases by bradley13 on Friday December 01, 2023 @03:43PM (#38492078)
Could be - I've been making this observation for a long time. The cycles keep going. On the other hand, probably lots of other people have commented on it as well...

You may be right about the browser becoming the OS. Chromebooks were already a step in that direction. But JS/HTML/CSS really is a horrible combination for application programming. If the browser does become the OS, can we please get decent technology to work with?

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Re:Stop building databases by PH95VuimJjqBqy on Friday December 01, 2023 @04:07PM (#38492413)
I expect we'll get back to native applications and move away from js/html/css.
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Re:Stop building databases by marcosdumay on Friday December 01, 2023 @06:11PM (#38493865)
HTML and CSS aren't too horrible as foundational tech. CSS needs a little work, but both allow for a lot of good abstractions. They may be some of the best platform we've ever had.

They are bad at just being directly programmable targets.

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Re:Stop building databases by holoduke on Friday December 01, 2023 @08:02PM (#38494723)
Html and css are probably the best, easiest and most effective ui toolkits ever. Name one which is better.
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