Re:Why I'm Done Making Desktop Applications (2009)
by adastra22 on Sunday July 14, 2024 @05:55AM
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Am I taking crazy pills? I never mentioned the 90's! Here's my original post, which is unedited:
> Developers like you and I are a dying breed. We remember writing applications for operating systems that had straightforward APIs, and OS developers that worked hard to ensure any app which used those APIs would not break.
> Most "full-stack" developers I know that write web apps have literally never written a line of C++ in their life, let alone written a rich text editor using an object oriented desktop GUI API.
> They don't know it's not supposed to hurt.
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> Developers like you and I are a dying breed. We remember writing applications for operating systems that had straightforward APIs, and OS developers that worked hard to ensure any app which used those APIs would not break.
> Most "full-stack" developers I know that write web apps have literally never written a line of C++ in their life, let alone written a rich text editor using an object oriented desktop GUI API.
> They don't know it's not supposed to hurt.
HN doesn't allow editing comments outside of a very short edit window.