Re-reading your posts, I kind of get the feeling we're on the same side. While I think it's important to create a better culture in software dev, I also think it's probably just as important to make it easy to write a program "the right way". Right now, it's just way, way too hard.
I kind of blame Electron for making it easy. It's sort of a trick right, "hey, I don't know what those C++ people are doing, just use JS, it's super easy". I don't necessarily think projects should post a table of pros and cons of their software -- there's definitely a certain level of "do your homework" involved -- but I do think some level of self-awareness is warranted. Think of SQLite's "Appropriate Uses For SQLite" page.
> If we want native clean apps back in the game, we need to make it easy and convenient for the new generation of devs to provide the features the new generation of users want.
Yeah, thinking about it a little more, I super agree. I don't think we should compromise all our values, but we definitely need to spend some time making software dev a lot easier.
Re-reading your posts, I kind of get the feeling we're on the same side. While I think it's important to create a better culture in software dev, I also think it's probably just as important to make it easy to write a program "the right way". Right now, it's just way, way too hard.
I kind of blame Electron for making it easy. It's sort of a trick right, "hey, I don't know what those C++ people are doing, just use JS, it's super easy". I don't necessarily think projects should post a table of pros and cons of their software -- there's definitely a certain level of "do your homework" involved -- but I do think some level of self-awareness is warranted. Think of SQLite's "Appropriate Uses For SQLite" page.
> If we want native clean apps back in the game, we need to make it easy and convenient for the new generation of devs to provide the features the new generation of users want.
Yeah, thinking about it a little more, I super agree. I don't think we should compromise all our values, but we definitely need to spend some time making software dev a lot easier.