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by hombre_fatal
2100 days ago
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Application development on the web is much more pleasant than what we were doing on any pre-web platform, and possibly even now. I've wanted one-way data flow (React, Elm) forever. We just have rose colored glasses because we were younger, dabbling, all tech was new and non-web tech was just what was available. And we confuse that for some sort of obvious tech superiority. I'd say those were the worst times for application development, not the best. Makes me wonder how many people actually worked on a production client application back then. |
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The platform that the web was designed on (NeXTSTEP) was much nicer to develop on. VB programmers had a much easier time than web development now. The web was designed as a document delivery platform and it continues to show how hard it is to get basic functionality going.