| > There’s massive innovation in front end development because billions of users are using ever more sophisticated applications created by millions of programmers backed by virtually infinite money. There's no real innovation on the web. As another commenter pointed out, all the "innovation" is around tools. And even those innovations are meh at best. Web has been busy reinventing things that desktop programming has had probably for decades, and what mobile development has had for years. And that's when we consider tools only. On the app/client side the situation is even more bleak and dire. We get a 100th store implementation. A 1000th drag and drop implementation. A 10000th file upload manager. A 100000th state manager. A... The "ever more sophisticated" applications can barely scratch the surface of native apps. And the actual more sophisticated apps like Figma are busy re-inventing and re-building the past 20 years of desktop UIs from scratch [1]. It's not innovation. It's a hamster wheel race. [1] https://www.figma.com/blog/building-a-professional-design-to... --- quote --- Pulling this off was really hard; we’ve basically ended up building a browser inside a browser. The reason this is hard is because the web wasn’t designed as a general-purpose computing platform. --- end quote --- |