Yes, of course, sure. I mean it's a completely different world then and now (Multi core cpus, High dpi displays, language versions gone from C#1 to C#7 etc). Complete window toolkits swapped out etc. Feature set has probably grown 1000% (E.g. like Word 1.0 to 20XX).
So it's almost unrecognizable but the thing is that someone who was in on the project 10 years ago would be up to speed fairly quickly even though the language jumped 6 major versions and the window toolkit changed etc. And someone who wrote a swing app in '97 could jump on board this C#7 project and be productive immediately. The fundamentals don't change much.
When I look away from Javascript for 5 years I feel like I woke up on another planet.
> did you consider webdevelopment and if so why didn't you change (I'm not pushing for web here, I'm just curious why you didn't follow the trend/hype).
Same reason other heavy desktop apps and games aren't web based. Need the power of the local machine. It's not a db+forms app, it's a CAD+FEM package. There are of course some examples of "cloud cad" now but I doubt it will become mainstream any time soon.
Probably what is the core of the matter here is that the fundamentals of the application isn't the code that makes application tick, it's the domain logic. So while desktop moves slower than web/mobile, apps that are 90% e.g. physics etc moves slower than apps that are thin on logic and deep in presentation such as many web apps.
I suppose if our app was an AI app, then it would be pretty out of date because the domain moved so much in 10 years. But for CAD/FEM it doesn't.
So it's almost unrecognizable but the thing is that someone who was in on the project 10 years ago would be up to speed fairly quickly even though the language jumped 6 major versions and the window toolkit changed etc. And someone who wrote a swing app in '97 could jump on board this C#7 project and be productive immediately. The fundamentals don't change much.
When I look away from Javascript for 5 years I feel like I woke up on another planet.
> did you consider webdevelopment and if so why didn't you change (I'm not pushing for web here, I'm just curious why you didn't follow the trend/hype).
Same reason other heavy desktop apps and games aren't web based. Need the power of the local machine. It's not a db+forms app, it's a CAD+FEM package. There are of course some examples of "cloud cad" now but I doubt it will become mainstream any time soon.
Probably what is the core of the matter here is that the fundamentals of the application isn't the code that makes application tick, it's the domain logic. So while desktop moves slower than web/mobile, apps that are 90% e.g. physics etc moves slower than apps that are thin on logic and deep in presentation such as many web apps.
I suppose if our app was an AI app, then it would be pretty out of date because the domain moved so much in 10 years. But for CAD/FEM it doesn't.