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Re:The State of Desktop Applications in Node.js by organsnyder on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @01:55PM (#8730918)
I agree that from a technology standpoint, the web development field is absolutely atrocious—at all levels. On the server side, broken languages control vast swaths of marketshare, and the client side has plenty of its own issues.

From the user's perspective, however, there's been a ton of innovation, and they (usually) don't know/care that most applications are built on houses of cards.

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Re:The State of Desktop Applications in Node.js by mattkrea on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @08:24PM (#8732705)
Out of curiosity what broken languages in particular are you referring to? I'm also somewhat curious at to what language(s) you use.
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Re:The State of Desktop Applications in Node.js by organsnyder on Thursday December 11, 2014 @09:28AM (#8734851)
I really should have made that singular—I was referring to PHP.

Historically, my language of choice for the server-side has been Java (I interned at an IBM lab that was involved in the creation of Eclipse, so I used it a lot at the start of my career). More recently, I've been dabbling in Ruby, and I'd also like to give Scala and Go a try.

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