On: Why is modern web development so complicated?

[redleggedfrog]

Sad that you're voted down. I'm a developer and I agree with the sentiment. Web browsers are being used as a run time.

[hahamrfunnyguy → redleggedfrog]

And we've been using them that way for a long time. The reason is it's so simple to deploy an app, no more developing cross-platform apps for Windows, OS X and Linux along with installers for them. I remember working on simple apps where the installation and deployment took longer than developing the app itself!

HTML/JavaScript isn't the best way to develop an app, but it's good enough and you can develop very good apps with it.

[amiga-workbench → redleggedfrog]

It's completely maddening because the domain has an incredible amount of complexity before you go inventing more to pile on.

[ng12 → redleggedfrog]

> Web browsers are being used as a run time.

Yes, because that's valuable to the business. My department makes money doing what we do, I'm making my life easier using an SPA framework.