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by chadcmulligan 3749 days ago
Web is where the new stuff was happening. The browser is very constrained - most of the 'new' stuff is to get around the browser shortcomings - e.g. react, angular. These are to solve front end problems that have been long solved on desktop environments (.Net, Delphi, VB maybe even Obj C though I'm not a fan)

Actual new tech is in the mobile sphere now imho, or server side AI, very little of this is web development except for the occasional front end for said apps.
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noir_lord 3749 days ago
As a former desktop developer, current web developer I think WebAssembly has a decent shot at changing that.

The tools I use now are significantly more crude in the business domain/for line of business stuff than I was using in the days of Delph 5.

Personally, give me something that can run Qt (or something like it) and Python in the browser and I'm 95% to been in heaven.

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