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by coldtea 3772 days ago
>learning mobile development requires you to not only learn new language APIs in objC/swift, but you also have to learn some new design patterns (delegation, etc.)

Delegation has been a standard feature of desktop APIs for decades. Not just on things like Smalltalk and ObjC -- it has been the standard .NET model for UI events since C# 1.0.
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jaegerpicker 3772 days ago
sure but the majority of developers writing code write webapps. Some there are some desktop apps out there but not a lot.
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danappelxx 3772 days ago
Going to need a source on that 'majority' of which you speak of as if its a fact. Sure, web development is popular, but there are a _lot_ of developers working on other things (which potentially include delegation). Also, I'm sure you'll many web frameworks that use the delegation pattern.
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coldtea 3771 days ago
I'd say the majority of developers write enterprise code, whether web or not.
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