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Off topic this but your phrase "lest the Scotsmen come by" intrigued me. It sounds vaguely idiomatic but I don't know the reference. Any enlightenment available?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
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>>>>Software is the only industry where you are asked to build systems that have never been built before but that are more complex than anything ever built in the history of "mature industries" Anyone engineering hypersonic missiles would easily dispute that.[1] Or submarine-capable quantum communication systems.[2] [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/magazine/hypersonic-missi... [2] https://www.realcleardefense.c…
There are occasionally novel engineering projects. These will be millions of dollars and years over budget, and then will fail. All their "mature industry standards and procedures and certifications" wont' save them.
[1]https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/...
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The problem with that, is that flash even as an IDE was not really suited our new responsive web. Its not really good for content or development of anything other than games, animations and ads.
Did you ever develop with Flex? MXML and CSS + ActionScript was a great way to design webapps, and if phones actually ran flash, apps and components could be just as responsive as anything modern. The closest JS ever got to it was Angular 1, but then the Angular folks changed course and whatever version it's at now is very different. My current favorite is the ClojureScript ecosystem, but it's even more different tha…
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Honest Question, how do I support our IE 11 Customers (8% of our MRR) with this approach?
Alas, about 50% of mine. Many government and healthcare organizations STILL using Internet Exploder, presumably until its 2025 end of life:-(
As far as I know, Microsoft plans to keep IE11 around as long as Windows exists.
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Connectivity is not always available, and errors retrieving it may mean you have to re-enter everything. Being able to "navigate" the site without the dinosaur is a tremendous boon for end users. You wouldn't be able to send anything without a connection, but you could buffer it for an opportune moment. Sites like HN and Stackoverflow have a vastly different audience than most bread-and-butter sites, and tackle diffe…
Most bread-and-butter sites are just fine as server-side rendered page. Large client-side frameworks reimplementing the browser and server functionality should be rare, when the situation actually calls for it. If you really need a offline site then a simple service worker is all you need to cache the pages, not a big JS app.
You can write bad apps in any language and environment, similarly a site/app is not bad just because it's done in Y.
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Ugh. You've basically made the case for me doing my next project in c++ 17 instead of using it as an excuse to learn Rust. Im morally opposed to c++....
isn't protection against de-referencing null pointers a good reason?
[0] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Instrumentation-Options.h...
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Yeah, but I've been around the block enough times to avoid those types of bugs.
It's much more than just null pointer dereferencing. Time and time again, it's been proven that Rust protects even very experienced C++ programmers from bugs they didn't realize they're even making.
As well as having free-form pointers, C/C++ also have many, many dark corners.
What proportion of C++ programmers know that comparison = (c == c++); causes undefined behaviour?
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My background is mainly frontend, but I'm well versed in backend as well. I've been actively advocating at my company to stop with this whole separate frontend and backend, and instead just return plain HTML and some basic JavaScript when needed. In most of my personal projects I've been following this approach too, and I must say, I'm so much more productive. I don't find myself constantly switching between browser-…
I built a SPA and found making the API and linking everything up to be needless overhead. The way I find works best is using rails templates to simply insert a div with all the data needed in the attributes and then having react render everything.
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I'm not sure if I fully agree with your point about developers or managers not wanting to suggest they aren't needed. You're argument relies on the idea that most business needs could be sufficiently met by static html doesn't really fit how businesses works. If a business in an industry has additional functionality on their page that gives them an edge beyond just text on a page, then it is needed. Additionally, whe…
While this is occasionally true, I believe it is most of the time not true. Many, many features (e.g. endless scrolling) get pushed out to consumers who don't want it. By and large, consumers of websites want text and images. The push to put embedded video, lots of ajaxy updating of content, etc. has happened on countless newspaper, magazine, and other websites where all the consumer wants is the words and the images…
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The real metric of quality is does it do what you expected. PHP is a gun that sometimes shoots backwards with no sensible reason where as rust has a gyroscope that can work out when the gun is pointing at your face and requires that you turn off the safety first. Entire classes of bugs simply don't exist in better languages.
Well, yes. You can write a web application in Haskell and enjoy the beautiful and flexible type system, first order functions, monads and all the other wonderful things. But you shouldn't. Because when you leave, the client will never be able to find someone to maintain the damn thing and chances are they will hire someone else to rewrite it yet again in PHP. And possibly hire someone to make a voodoo doll of you and…