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I think you're probably about 5 years too young (maybe that's where OP is coming from). You started in the Dark Ages but didn't experience the Classical times before them of desktop and client/server apps.

There are a lot of advantages to web development, but in terms of tools really helping you to whip up something that meets the standards of the day, we still haven't caught up to those times. Meteor is the only framework I've used that I'd say is as painless as Delphi and its like were at the time.




Actually I taught myself how to program in my early teens using C++ on DOS and Windows 3.x in the early 90's, so I do in fact remember those days.




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