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Because I'm old and I'm sick to death of everything being a web app. Because I hate web app programming so it limits my employment options :-)



I'd be more mad about this if building native applications wasn't super shitty these days. Xcode crashes all the time. SwiftUI is terribly documented and buggy. And lots of standard things you see apple do in their apps are basically impossible to do from 3rd party code. And its impossible to debug anything because its all closed source. And windows has about 8 different native UI libraries that all look and feel different, and they're constantly making new ones instead of making one UI be good and well supported.

I hate electron with a burning passion. But at least the web has open standards, good debugging tools and modern, performant, well documented and pleasant to use UI libraries like React, SolidJS and so on.

Just don't ask about rich text editing on the web. Oh god. Its been decades and its still so shit.


I feel the same.




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