[jcelerier]

I'm so happy to just develop desktop apps in C++ / Qt. I commit, I tag a release, this generates mac / windows / linux binaries, users download them, the end.

[m_st]

I'm very happy in the same camp using C# and SQL (though Windows only).

Thank you for making desktop apps.

[abraxas]

I want to live in that world again. It ended for me about 19 years ago when I left my last "desktop software" job. How do you manage to avoid "web stacks" in this day and age?

[jcelerier]

Most people still use desktop software for large projects ? Adobe stuff, music software, basically any advanced authoring software - the performance of the web platform is just not there for projects measured in dozens of gigabytes of media, hundreds of AVX2-optimized plug-ins, etc (and it's a field with a large tradition of benchmarking software between each other to find the most efficient, see e.g. dawbench)

[selfhoster11]

I write backend code, and it's basically Java + Spring. No web technologies beyond HTTP in sight.

[drinchev]

There is hardly an app that I use these days that doesn't require internet connection. I guess once your app needs it, you will have the same problems.

[jcelerier]

> There is hardly an app that I use these days that doesn't require internet connection.

well, most of the ones I use (my note taking app, my text editor, my music player, my file manager) don't so YMMV