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by fendy3002 1014 days ago
can vouch on this, since originally I really prefer WYSIWYG UI (VB, C# winforms, wpf) over web early. However security-wise it's hard to enforce when using them, since they don't really operating using client-server by default, having your backend logic prone to be reverse engineered.

This doesn't happen in web apps, since backend logic stays on the server. Whipping a html UI over the already server-client architecture is easier. In addition with ease of deployment of application making web apps very favorable.
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yoava 1014 days ago
VB and Delphi reference architecture was 2 tier - client and database. With this reference architecture, you are right about the security and distribution problems. You just reminded me of the shareware market and the hacked shareware markets...

However, early on, around 1998, people started talking on 3 tier architecture of client - server - database on both platforms. There where even attempts to build web pages using both platforms (and later on .Net), which failed because of a lot of reasons, one big reason was not understanding the advantages of CSS.

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fendy3002 1013 days ago
Yes and nowadays there's nodejs with react, where there's javascript on both client and server, with addition of html and css making desktop app that's not multi platform, almost obsolete.

Which is why lately companies are trying to use electron or react native to replace them.

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marcus_holmes 1013 days ago
I opened VS and looked at WPF again the other week. It was a surprisingly pleasant experience. Though my C# is sooooo rusty now (and not in a crab-like way).

I wonder if there's a market for "WPF for Golang"? ;)

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